Hostomel, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 20, 2022. Hostomel airport was occupied from the first days of the invasion, after intense fighting it is now under Ukrainian control.
Przemyśl, Poland, March 1st, 2022. A Ukrainian refugee sleeps at Przemyśl station. From the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the railway station in Przemyśl, a small town of 60,000 inhabitants in south-east Poland, has been one of the main entry points for refugees from all over the country.
Medyka, Poland, February 28, 2022. Ukrainian refugees who have just arrived at the Polish border.
Medyka, Poland, February 28, 2022.
Medyka, Poland, February 28, 2022. Ukrainian refugees who have just arrived at the Polish border are waiting for a bus to take them to Przemyśl, just a few kilometres away.
Medyka, Poland, March 1st, 2022.
Medyka, Poland, March 1st, 2022. Ukrainian refugees who have just arrived at the Polish border are warming up as they wait for a bus to take them to Przemyśl, just a few kilometres away.
Bucha, on the northwestern outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 4, 2022 the fighting was very violent in this city which was occupied by the Russian army for almost a month.
Medyka, Poland, February 28, 2022. Ukrainian refugees who have just arrived at the Medyka border post. Here, they can eat, drink and collect donations (clothes, childcare equipment, etc.).
Senkivka, Ukraine, January 21, 2022. Just a few kilometres from the Belarusian and Russian borders.
Slaviansk, in eastern Ukraine, February 1, 2022. Portrait of Kolya, 54 years old man suffering from paranoid skyzophrenia.
Kyiv, Ukraine, January 21, 2022. Ukrainian border at the “Three Sisters” checkpoint, where the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian borders meet.
Zhovid, Ukraine, January 21, 2022. Portrait of Oleg, 59 years old, who worked for 27 years as a border guard at the Bielorussian border in Ukraine.
Ukraine, January 20, 2022. Checkpoint a few kilometres from the border Ukraine-Russia-Belarus.
Lutsk, Ukraine, March 24, 2022. Men watch the latest news on the war.
Bucha, on the northwestern outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 4, 2022 the fighting was very violent in this city which was occupied by the Russian army for almost a month.
Kyiv, Ukraine, August 4, 2022. Portrait of Natalyia, aged 63. Natalyia lived in Izum, a town that was occupied by Russian troops from the very first days of the invasion. She was severely injured when her house was hit while she was in the basement. Natalyia has to undergo several facial reconstruction operations. Here she is during one of these operations. That day, pieces of glass were removed from her face.
Kyiv, Ukraine, July 27, 2022. Portrait of Natalyia, aged 63. Natalyia lived in Izum, a town that was occupied by Russian troops from the very first days of the invasion. “On 23 March, at 5pm, my parents’ neighbours in Izum called to tell me that six hours earlier, a bomb had fallen on our house and my mother had been seriously injured. They said to me: “your mother has no face”, says Natalyia’s daughter Oksana.
Kyiv, Ukraine, February 3, 2022. On the banks of the Dniepr.
Bucha, Ukraine, April 5, 2022. A mass grave where hundreds people have been buried under the 40 days of Russian occupation
Slaviansk, in eastern Ukraine, February 9, 2022.
Bucha, on the northwestern outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 5, 2022 the fighting was very violent in this city which was occupied by the Russian army for almost a month.
Bucha, on the northwestern outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 4, 2022 the fighting was very violent in this city which was occupied by the Russian army for almost a month.
Borodyanka, 40 km northwest from Kyiv, Ukraine, April 6, 2022. At the beginning of March, about a thousand of the 13,000 residents remained stuck in the city. They suffered relentless aerial bombardment and then brutal occupation by Russian forces. The city was partially destroyed.
Borodyanka, 40 km northwest from Kyiv, Ukraine, April 6, 2022. At the beginning of March, about a thousand of the 13,000 residents remained stuck in the city. They suffered relentless aerial bombardment and then brutal occupation by Russian forces. The city was partially destroyed.
Ploske, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 11, 2022. Members of the territorial defense and the police prepare the body bags to take the bodies of the three men to the forensic institute and carry out their autopsies.
Ploske, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 11, 2022. Members of the territorial defense and the police prepare the body bags to take the bodies of the three men to the forensic institute and carry out their autopsies.
Ploske, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 11, 2022. Maria in tears attends the exhumation of the body of her grandson, who is one of the three men killed by Russian soldiers during the occupation. Maria was plundered and threatened by Russian soldiers who lived in her building.
Plosk, Ukraine, April 11, 2022. A Russian tank burnt down in front of a school after a month’s occupation of the town of Ploske on the outskirts of Kyiv.
Bucha, on the northwestern outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 5, 2022 the fighting was very violent in this city which was occupied by the Russian army for almost a month.
Borodyanka, 40 km northwest from Kyiv, Ukraine, April 6, 2022. Oleg left his apartment with his wife in the early days of the Russian invasion, he returns for the first time and protects his belongings by putting up tarpaulins to replace his windows which exploded during the fighting.
Kyiv, Ukraine, April 9 2022.
Bucha, on the northwestern outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 4, 2022. The bodies of 5 men with their hands tied, showing signs of torture, were found in the basement of a children’s sanatorium.
Kyiv, Ukraine, July 10, 2022. In the Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War, a fragment of a missile found on a battlefield is on display as part of the “Ukraine-crucifixion” exhibition.
Kyiv, Ukraine, July 10, 2022. In the Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War the “Ukraine-Crucifixion” exhibition owes its name to this late 20th century painting of the “Descent from the Cross”, which was found damaged by shrapnel in the church of St Dimitri de Rostov in the town of Makhariv.
Kyiv, Ukraine, August 3, 2022. Portrait of « Wikipedia » in Kyiv. He was one of the 2,000 soldiers who resisted in the Azovstal plant for several weeks. On May 16, 2022, a group of Azov fighters carried Wikipedia to the bunker hospital. The 29-year-old patient was riddled with shrapnel from an anti-tank missile. His left eye and left leg were gone. Wikipedia had joined Azov in 2019 as a reconnaissance drone operator. He spent almost six weeks in a hospital in Russian-controlled territory, but was among 144 fighters released in late June in a prisoner swap.
Kyiv, Ukraine, August 3, 2022. Maidan Square, a memorial has been installed, people come to place a Ukrainian flag with the names of the deceased soldiers.
Kyiv, Ukraine, July 25, 2022. On the banks of the Dniepr.
Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, July 15, 2022. Tactical training of the Kastous-Kalinowski Battalion, named after a Belarusian national hero who led an insurgency against Russia in the 19th century. This battalion fights the Russian army alongside the Ukrainian forces.
Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, July 15, 2022. Portrait of Belarusian soldiers. They decided to join the Kastous Kalinowski volunteer battalion – a Belarusian battalion fighting the Russian army alongside Ukrainian forces.
Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, July 15, 2022. Tactical training of the Kastous-Kalinowski Battalion, named after a Belarusian national hero who led an insurgency against Russia in the 19th century. This battalion fights the Russian army alongside the Ukrainian forces.
Kyiv, Ukraine, July 9, 2022. Soviet anti-aircraft guns, in the distance the statue of the Motherland erected on 9 May 1981, part of the Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War.
Kyiv, Ukraine, July 23, 2023. Bathers in Hidropark.
Kyiv, Ukraine, July 25, 2022. The Arch of Friendship of Peoples was renamed in June 2022 the Arch of Freedom of the Ukrainian People, in the same place a statue that celebrated the friendship between Ukraine and Russia was dismantled.
Slaviansk, in eastern Ukraine, February 10, 2022. Portrait of Maksim at home, son of Lydmila, mother of two children – Nikita and Maksim – lost her husband at the start of the war, who died in the bombing of his home in the Lughansk region. She has since moved to Sloviansk with her children. Maksim started suffering from epilepsy at the beginning of the war.
Kyiv, Ukraine, February 3, 2022. Maidan Square
Brovary, Ukraine, April 10, 2022. Portrait of Aleks and Sveta at home.
Donbass, Ukraine, november 2022. On the roads of Donbass.