De-occupation

The Berdiansk direction: Ukrainian counteroffensive in 2023

In early June 2023, information about the start of Ukrainian offensive operations began circulating on social media. One of the occupiers’ major attempts to prevent the advance of Ukrainian troops was a large-scale crime in southern Ukraine — the destruction...

‘I have nothing except for these people.’ The battle for Bakhmut and Ukrainian counteroffensive

The town of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, formerly known as Artemivsk before decommunisation in Ukraine, was already an area of confrontation between the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Russia-backed militants in 2014. The battles continued for several months back then,...

Memories from the occupied Bucha

Bucha, Irpin, Hostomel — names of these small towns in the outskirts of Kyiv are now known all over the world. It was there that the first brutal mass murders of Ukrainians were discovered, committed by the Russian military that...

Scars of a Lost Humanity. A photo project about liberated cities

The full-scale war against Russia was expected. Still, on the 24th of February, it caught a lot of people by surprise. Insidiously advancing from the territory of Belarus, the invaders quickly made their way from the north. They temporarily occupied...

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