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For me every photoshoot is like another therapy session
She was 19 when she lost her leg from a missile that struck Kramatorsk. Two years later, she’s finishing university and posing for Vogue and Playboy
Anastasiia Shestopal06/21/24
Testimonies of Shelling Survivors
Accounts of missile and artillery strikes on residential buildings, hospitals, train stations, and other civilian infrastructure. Eyewitness accounts of destruction, injuries, evacuation, searching for loved ones, and rebuilding homes.
34 Testimonies
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For me they’re alive — I talk to them constantly
A Ukrainian who lost his family returned to Mariupol to rebury his relatives
Serhii Demchenko12/12/22 - Recording
A bloody trail leads to you. About twenty meters
A resident of Kherson on his injury, the occupation, and shelling after the city’s liberation
Oleksandr Noskov12/27/22 - Recording
Grandpa comforts her: 'The skin will peel off — you’ll be pretty again'
A grandson told the story of his grandparents who were caught in a shelling in Chasiv Yar
Oleksandr Pedchenko11/26/22 - Recording
I need to go to the morgue. My husband is there
A mother of three lost her husband during the bombing of Mariupol
Olha Berezka08/16/22 - Recording
Three generations in one strike: granddaughters, their mother, and grandmother
A resident of Mariupol lost nearly his entire family during a shelling
Serhii Demchenko06/24/22 - Recording
Finding him was the last tribute I could pay
A Red Cross worker who discovered the body of a fallen colleague while clearing rubble after a shelling
Arkadii Dabagian07/19/22 - Text
If they restore my sight, I want to go to Ukraine
The life of a Ukrainian woman whose portrait became the first face of the war
Olena Kurylo12/18/22 - Text
'Let’s be honest — what about my eyes? ' 'Son, you don’t have any'
An Armed Forces sapper lost his sight in an explosion and rebuilt his life from scratch
Vladyslav Yeshchenko04/13/23 - Text
The coffins were sealed. There were three intact bodies; the rest were fragments
A Ukrainian man lost seven family members in one day. He couldn’t bury them for over a year
Vitalii Perehon06/21/23 - Text
I wasn’t eating, but I was constantly throwing up from fear
What it’s like when you flee Russia first from Donbas, and then from Kharkiv
Oleksandra04/24/22 - Text
We’ll never return to Love Story
How wedding photographers the Liberovs became the most important Ukrainians documenting everything
Vlada and Kostiantyn Liberov11/02/22
