Firsthand reports and reflections from wartime Ukraine documenting everyday life, resistance, displacement, and survival amid Russia’s invasion. Through personal testimonies and frontline correspondence, the series captures the human realities of war.
Firsthand reports and reflections from wartime Ukraine documenting everyday life, resistance, displacement, and survival amid Russia’s invasion. Through personal testimonies and frontline correspondence, the series captures the human realities of war.
The inhabitants of Kherson do not want to think about the problems they will face. Today they want to enjoy their regained freedom. First, there were problems with electricity in the city–more and more frequently, until there was a complete lack of supply. It was the same with water and communication. Ukrainian telephone networks have not reached here for a long time, and now Russian ones have …
The wide and mighty Dnieper river separates the two warring armies, which fire missiles and rockets at each other. On the right bank is positioned the Ukrainian army, which had recently recaptured the city of Kherson and a large part of the Kherson oblast. On the left bank–the Russians are on the defensive. It was the sound of the Dnieper’s water that Roman heard when, during the Russian …
You don’t need to read the news in a field hospital. The wounds of the patients show what is happening at the front. One of the doctors perched on a stretcher. A group of medics was also waiting at the entrance. This hospital, formerly civilian, was first abandoned due to the ongoing war, and then occupied by medical units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. They had earlier …
In places regained by the Ukrainian army, police units look for saboteurs and collaborators, search for abandoned weapons and clear roads. The man has a winter hat pulled over his head. At eye level, it is wrapped in duct tape advertising a logistics company and cafes selling croissants. Policemen in military uniforms walk around the man. One of them pulls Russian license plates from Crimea from the …
To this day, Serhiy does not know where his mother hid it. Volodymyr hid it in a cupboard. Julia in a shoebox. Now they proudly parade in the streets with the flags. He doesn’t even know how the old tattered flag got there. For as long as 17-year-old Serhiy can remember, it hung at the gas station where his father worked. The latter was the one who …
Lacking men and equipment, the Ukrainian counter-offensive in the south of the country still cannot proceed in earnest. It will fail without more help from abroad. Clouds of heavy smoke float above the white wooden houses and gazebos. Some tourists record, others run away. “We have to go, this is a mess,” “Our wooden house won’t protect us from anything”—voices are heard out of frame. In total, …
On August 20, Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk will face Briton Anthony Joshua in a rematch. For Usyk, who comes from Crimea, there is much more at stake in this fight than three championship belts. At first you might not realize that it was a press conference before the fight for the three most important heavyweight championship belts, dubbed by the organizers “Rage “on the Red Sea.” The …
Half a year after the invasion began, Ukrainians continue to help their army, often putting up the last of their money and their remaining energy. More than half a year ago this was a fishing shop. Today, only mannequins and elements of decor are a reminder of its past. After February 24, the space was turned into a help center for soldiers. They can get all of …
Russian rockets and missiles that destroy civilian and military facilities fall on the country every day. As calculated by the Ukrainian weekly Nowoje Wremia, Russia launched almost a hundred rockets towards Ukraine between June 25-27 alone. The city park seemed quiet on a sunny June afternoon. A few pedestrians—or at least not many of them can be seen in the video recorded by surveillance cameras published by the …
The Russian attack left traces on the Ukrainian capital and its inhabitants that will not disappear for years. Four months ago, a group of people stood in this courtyard as artillery cannonades were heard from afar. Lyudmila, 45, had not gone to work for a long time, so she did not see this with her own eyes. She worked in a small grocery store where, apart from …
