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Russia`s morning attack on Kharkiv

8.10.2023
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On 6 October, at around 6.46 a.m., explosions were heard in Kharkiv. The strikes took place in the Kyivskyi and Osnovianskyi districts of the city. Iskander missiles had been used by the Russian military earlier that day.

Photo: Yakiv Lyashenko

As of 14:30, 30 people had been injured in the shelling of Kharkiv, 12 of them are in the hospital. The head of the regional military administration, Oleg Sinegubov, reports that a ten-year-old boy was killed. The child's body was recovered from the rubble of an apartment building in the Osnovyansky district. The search for bodies under the rubble is ongoing.

Photo: Vasylisa Stepanenko

Yakiv Liashenko — Ukrainian photographer from Kharkov. He began his professional career in 2012. After the beginning of a full-scale invasion, he worked as a fixer for famous photographers and in parallel documented the events of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Currently a freelance photojournalist at EPA Agency.

Photographer's social networks: Instagram, Facebook.

Vasylisa Stepanenko — Ukrainian journalist, producer, presenter. Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine and the Pulitzer Prize.

Photographer's social networks: Instagram, Facebook.

The material was worked on:
Researcher of the topic, author of the text: Katya Moskalyuk
Bildeditor: Vyacheslav Ratynskyi
Literary Editor: Julia Futei
Site Manager: Vladislav Kuhar


Read also: Russian troops attacked Kharkiv with missiles “S-300" and “Shaheds”. The consequences — in the photos of photographers Yakov Lyashenko and Yevhenii Gartner

The material was created with the support of The Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation.

On 6 October, at around 6.46 a.m., explosions were heard in Kharkiv. The strikes took place in the Kyivskyi and Osnovianskyi districts of the city. Iskander missiles had been used by the Russian military earlier that day.

Photo: Yakiv Lyashenko

As of 14:30, 30 people had been injured in the shelling of Kharkiv, 12 of them are in the hospital. The head of the regional military administration, Oleg Sinegubov, reports that a ten-year-old boy was killed. The child's body was recovered from the rubble of an apartment building in the Osnovyansky district. The search for bodies under the rubble is ongoing.

Photo: Vasylisa Stepanenko

Yakiv Liashenko — Ukrainian photographer from Kharkov. He began his professional career in 2012. After the beginning of a full-scale invasion, he worked as a fixer for famous photographers and in parallel documented the events of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Currently a freelance photojournalist at EPA Agency.

Photographer's social networks: Instagram, Facebook.

Vasylisa Stepanenko — Ukrainian journalist, producer, presenter. Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine and the Pulitzer Prize.

Photographer's social networks: Instagram, Facebook.

The material was worked on:
Researcher of the topic, author of the text: Katya Moskalyuk
Bildeditor: Vyacheslav Ratynskyi
Literary Editor: Julia Futei
Site Manager: Vladislav Kuhar


Read also: Russian troops attacked Kharkiv with missiles “S-300" and “Shaheds”. The consequences — in the photos of photographers Yakov Lyashenko and Yevhenii Gartner

The material was created with the support of The Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation.

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