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 …
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 …
Risking their lives, teams of medics help wounded civilians and military personnel on the front line. Minutes separated them from the end of the day. 45-year-old Olena and her husband, 44-year-old Artur, were standing in the yard in front of their house. They never went to bed early. She stood close to the garage and he was a little farther away. It is possible that she went …
The inhabitants of the most damaged housing estate in the city are trying to breathe new life into it. There is still a terrible silence in Northern Saltivka. It is occasionally interrupted by the cooing of pigeons, the rustling of branches, the creaking of doors, or by a passing car crushing glass and rubble; more often the rumble of artillery, less often footsteps or conversation. Among the …
Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, is under constant threat from the Russian army. This is a story about how its inhabitants are learning to live under these conditions. For Hamlet Zinkovsky, urban space is like a grand studio. You come across his paintings almost everywhere you go. He placed them in inconspicuous places in the past, but now they are found right on the streets. “I want …
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 …
