In 2012, the International Airport “Donetsk” named after Sergei Prokofiev is a new runway, built for the European Championship, and the tallest control tower in Ukraine. Two years later — the gate to Donetsk, a strategic building and a fortification. It has been 11 years since the occupation forces blew up the floor in the new terminal of Donetsk airport on January 20, 2015 during the fighting to keep it. Many Ukrainian soldiers were killed. Every year, on January 20, Ukraine officially celebrates the Day of Remembrance of the defenders of Donetsk airport, bowing their heads in front of their feat. The Russians destroyed the tower, but it lives on as a symbol of the unbreakable will of the Ukrainian defenders, stronger than concrete.

As part of the FotoEvidence Ukraine initiative, the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP) published Serhii Korovainyi’s photobook *Donbas, the Land of Hell and Love* — a personal story about a home that no longer exists and about a love for the land that cannot be erased from memory.

The Russian army continues to kill and injure Ukrainian children. In the middle of the night, Russian forces deliberately strike residential neighborhoods in cities and towns, taking the lives of the younger generation and, in some cases, entire families. The youngest injured child this week — an infant in Dnipro — is not even a month old. This week became one of mourning for Bohodukhiv in the Kharkiv region, as well as for Kramatorsk and Sloviansk in the Donetsk region. Children were wounded in the Sumy region, in Zaporizhzhia, and in Kherson. In addition, Russian forces attacked young Ukrainians in a hospital and a kindergarten. Odesa has been under fire almost daily; the enemy continues to terrorize the southern part of the region, attempting to create a severe situation with electricity and heating. The Russian army also launched massive strikes on Kyiv and Dnipro, and enemy weapons reached the western regions of the country as well.

Photographer Adriana Dovha shared how she captures bright, light-filled people and moments at a time when everything around seems to be only shadows and darkness — and why the camera helps her preserve empathy and sentimentality even when it brings her extremely close to pain and grief.

Director, journalist and founder of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers Mstislav Chernov became the winner of the Directors Guild of America (DGA Awards). The director received an award in the category “Outstanding Directing Achievement in Documentary Film for 2025" for the film “2000 meters to Andreevka”.