内容摘要：“I spent a decade learning how to exploit enemy communications,” he says of his background.

“I spent a decade learning how to exploit enemy communications,” he says of his background.

The president did not mention where the road was although the film was quickly linked to Normandien.But the people who live nearby know better than anyone that his claim is not true.

The BBC visited the area on Thursday, the day after the Oval Office showdown, to find that the P39-1's crosses have long since disappeared.There is no burial site, and the road looks like any other. A new grain mill has been built along one stretch where the crosses once briefly stood.What we found was a community shocked to find itself under the spotlight, and a truth about the crosses that reveals much about the delicate balance of race relations in South Africa.

Roland Collyer is a man who understands both.A farmer from South Africa's Afrikaner community, it was the murder of his aunt and uncle Glen and Vida Rafferty, bludgeoned to death in their home five years ago, which led to the erection of the crosses.

Their deaths at their farm, by attackers who stole valuables from their home, led to a public outcry by the farming community, and the temporary planting of the crosses by fellow Afrikaners keen to highlight their murders among those of other farmers who have been killed across South Africa.

"So the video that you guys have been seeing," he tells me as we stand together by the roadside, "happened along this section of the road."Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and has since annexed four eastern regions of Ukraine's sovereign territory, including large areas that remain under Ukrainian control.

Ukraine's Kursk offensive has not succeeded in halting Russia's push to capture more territory in the east, although its advance along the front lines has been very slow.Ukrainian forces on the eastern flanks say Russia launched 14 attacks overnight towards Druzhba, Petrivka, and Toretsk.

A Ukrainian soldier close to the eastern city of Pokrovsk told the BBC that there has been a major push by Russian forces there too.He said invading troops had targeted a major road that is used as a supply line, adding that they had been struggling to hold their positions for some time.