Military photographer Oleg Palchyk documented the life of the city
Military photographer Oleg Palchyk documented the lives of civilians in one of the hottest hotspots — front-line Avdiivka.
In recent days, most of the news concerns the Russian offensive on Avdiyivka and Donbas as a whole. At the beginning of October, Oleg Palchyk together with the team of “TRO Media” came to Avdiyivka, for which fierce fighting continues.
“The situation was very difficult that day. The enemy attracted the entire palette of weapons that were available: 19 landings were counted from ballistic missiles alone. Shots from tanks, RSFs, mortars — no one counted. When they returned, the road was already paved with bricks, and a large piece of rocket was lying in the middle of the intersection. But we still left. Avdiyivka is Ukraine. It will always be Ukraine.”
Oleg Palchyk, military photographer
Palchyk says that he is coming to the city for the fourth time in a year and adds that every time in Avdiivka more and more houses are destroyed and not a single surviving window remains. There is no light, water, gas and heating for more than a year. In contrast, about 1,600 civilians still live in the city. Most of them are retired, but there are a few children. Each resident is registered with the military administration of the city. Civilians, especially families with children, are persuaded to leave. Agreed — units.
According to the photographer, people live in basements, the premises are heated by bourgeois, and they cook food on them. Six shops and a hospital still operate in the city. There is a “Center of Inviolability”, where you can charge devices, watch Ukrainian news, wash and get a haircut, drink coffee with sandwiches, as well as get medical advice and medicines.
The material was created with the support of The Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation.
Oleg Palchyk (41) is a military photographer, in the army since spring 2022, junior sergeant of the Public Relations Service of the Territorial Defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Before the war, he worked as a professional advertising photographer.
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