UAPP, in partnership with The Kyiv Independent, continues its monthly feature—a selection of key photographs that most accurately convey the events, mood, and challenges of another month of the full-scale war.

This selection features not only major events but also everyday moments that, through the lens, become symbols of the time. These are photographs that capture pain, dignity, exhaustion, strength, and hope. Images that help us see and remember. Together, we are creating a visual archive of history unfolding right now.

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A serviceman of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Air Assault Forces lands after a training parachute jump in an undisclosed location, March 27, 2026.
The Air Assault Forces (DShV) are a separate branch of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, whose main purpose is to quickly respond to military threats and conduct rapid offensive and defensive operations. DShV units were among the first involved in operations such as the Kursk operation and the Kharkiv counteroffensive. Ukraine is preparing key changes in the mobilization process, as well as improved contracts and remuneration for infantry and assault units, seeking to attract more people to the military.
Photo: Roman Pilipey / AFP via Getty Images

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A fire that broke out after a Russian night attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 16, 2026.
Photo by Kostiantyn and Vlada Liberov

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Servicemen of the 4th Mechanized Battalion of the Separate Presidential Brigade celebrating Easter in a dug-out in the Kharkiv region, Izium direction, Ukraine, April 20, 2025.
Photo by Viktor Taranenko

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A medical worker kisses a released Ukrainian prisoner of war before transportation after a prisoner exchange in the Chernihiv region, Ukraine, April 11, 2026.
Photo by Andriy Kravchenko

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View of a field behind an anti-drone net stretched along the road in Kherson, Ukraine, April 2, 2026.
Photo by Mykhailo Palinchak / Society

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A mobile fire group of the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces patrols the road from Druzhkivka to Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, April 24, 2026.
This route is an important logistics artery for the Donetsk region and is under constant attack from Russian drones.
Photo by Serhii Korovainyi

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Released Ukrainian prisoners of war, wrapped in Ukrainian state flags, embrace after a prisoner exchange in an undisclosed location in the Chernihiv region, April 24, 2026.
Russia and Ukraine exchanged 193 captured military personnel each—this was the second exchange this month, one of the few signs of cooperation between Moscow and Kyiv. Throughout the four-year full-scale war, the two countries have exchanged thousands of prisoners of war, and these exchanges have often been the only result of negotiations stalled on the issue of ending the conflict.
Photo by Roman Pilipey / AFP via Getty Images

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View of residential buildings in the abandoned city of Pripyat with the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the background, in the ChNPP Exclusion Zone, April 15, 2026.
Photo by Kostiantyn Chernichkin / The Ukrainians

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Dmytro, a Ukrainian serviceman wounded in the Vovchansk direction by a Lancet kamikaze drone attack, photographed after receiving medical attention in a hospital in Kharkiv, Ukraine, April 10, 2026.
Photo by Anastasiia Vlasova

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A fighter from the Zaporizhzhia police special unit "Striletskyi" heads to the position of police-pilots of the "Gara" strike drone in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, April 8, 2026.
Photo by Dmytro Smoliienko

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The selection was compiled by:
Georhii Ivanchenko
Olga Kovalova
Irynka Hromotska

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