On the night of November 3, the Russians attacked Ukraine with forty Shahed drones and deployed the X-59 guided air missile from the airspace of the temporarily occupied Kherson region. It was possible to shoot down 24 drones and missiles. This was reported in the Air Force of the Armed Forces.
In Kharkov and the region, Russian troops carried out 10 strikes with drones. Around 00:45 there was a series of attacks on the city of Kharkiv. Subsequently, the mayor Igor Terekhov reported that the Russian Federation hit civilian objects in the city. Law enforcement officers recorded damage to private houses, an educational institution and cars in the Osnovyansky and Shevchenko districts of the city.
“2 garages, 4 cars and an outbuilding were damaged. The educational institution was partially destroyed. Also damaged were the building of the service station, a non-functioning sewing shop and a residential building. There were fires,” says the Head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Oleg Synegubov.
The report states that 8 Kharkiv residents with an acute reaction to stress, including 2 children, turned to doctors. No one was injured.
“As a result of one of the hits, the service station was busy: garages and cars were on fire. Partially destroyed two-storey building nearby. It was not residential, but inside there were sleeping places for the temporary stay of people who left the territories occupied by Russia. Now rescuers are dismantling rubble,” said Dmitry Chubenko, spokesman of the Kharkiv regional prosecutor's office.
Photographer Yakov Lyashenko worked at the scene. Near a private house, he noticed an elderly couple.
“The man moves with the help of walkers. When a fire started in their house, they barely escaped,” says Yakov Lyashenko. “The woman remembered that a few days before the incident, someone took a photo of the service station on the phone and she even called the police. But that can only be a woman's guess.”
Photographer Georgy Ivanchenko returned to Kharkiv on November 2 from a long business trip.
“There is a strange sound on my street and all the motorcycles that pass by always remind me of UAVs. However, this night I did not pay attention to these sounds. So it was until the explosion — I looked out the window and saw a red glow. Arrival. Fire. Camera in hand and out,” says Georgy Ivanchenko.
According to the photographer, firefighters, police, even residents of the houses near which the explosion occurred — all were calm.
“Services do their work in a balanced way, without fear or stress. Filmed. Other journalists came — you can go home, to bed,” Ivanchenko says.
Yakov Liashenko — Ukrainian photographer from Kharkov. He began his professional career in 2012. After the start 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.
Georgy Ivanchenko— Ukrainian photographer, who since February 2022 works as a freelance reporter in the field of documentary and journalistic photography. From the first months of the invasion, he began filming for the Associated Press and the European Pressphoto Agency. Starting from Borodyanshchyna, where Georgy was born, continuing his journey through the front line: Mykolaiv, Kharkiv region, Kherson region, now his attention was concentrated on Donetsk region. The turning point in his photography was that he lived in Bakhmut for almost a month. Throughout December and January, he documented the lives of the townspeople, carrying a backpack and sleeping bag, sharing life with locals in basements, volunteers, medics, soldiers, and firefighters. In April, while working on material about Chasiv Yar in Donbas, his car was shot and destroyed by a Russian shell. Now the author continues his reflection on the numerous situations that have happened on his way and is working on the creation of his first project “Way of War” (working title).
Photographer's social networks:Instagram, Facebook
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