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Massive shelling of Dnipro and nightly terror in Odesa: a weekly overview of enemy attacks
Dnipro and Odesa are once again recovering from strikes on residential neighborhoods. Following the twenty‑hour shelling of Dnipro on April 25, nine civilians were confirmed dead and 61 injured; the attack the day before claimed three more lives. In Odesa, two people were killed and nearly twenty wounded. The week was marked by a sharp escalation of shelling in border and frontline regions. Sumy, Nizhyn, Chernihiv, and Kharkiv suffered from enemy strikes, with intensified attacks in northern Kharkiv region. The situation remains consistently severe in the south and east — in Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and Donetsk. In Kyiv, the death toll from the April 18 terrorist attack rose to seven after a man died in hospital; seven more people, including a child, remain under medical care. At the same time, Prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko clarified that it was not the mother of the injured child who died, but her sister.
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Massive shelling of Dnipro and nightly terror in Odesa: a weekly overview of enemy attacks
Dnipro and Odesa are once again recovering from strikes on residential neighborhoods. Following the twenty‑hour shelling of Dnipro on April 25, nine civilians were confirmed dead and 61 injured; the attack the day before claimed three more lives. In Odesa, two people were killed and nearly twenty wounded. The week was marked by a sharp escalation of shelling in border and frontline regions. Sumy, Nizhyn, Chernihiv, and Kharkiv suffered from enemy strikes, with intensified attacks in northern Kharkiv region. The situation remains consistently severe in the south and east — in Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and Donetsk. In Kyiv, the death toll from the April 18 terrorist attack rose to seven after a man died in hospital; seven more people, including a child, remain under medical care. At the same time, Prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko clarified that it was not the mother of the injured child who died, but her sister.
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Russian propaganda in action: how the Hungarian government used Kremlin narratives in its election campaign
In the pro‑Russian information space, baseless accusations were spread that Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate, with Brussels’ support, was controlling the Hungarian opposition party *Tisza*. This conspiracy theory served as a tool to accuse Ukraine and the European Union of attempting to illegally change power in Hungary. The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers publishes key anti‑Ukrainian narratives with a Hungarian focus, while Maksym Kishka’s photo report from Hungary documents the public mood in the country with factual precision.
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A tragic week for Ukraine: brutal Russian attacks on peaceful cities and an armed assault on people in the capital
Russia turned Easter Week into a time of relentless airstrikes. The most brutal and destructive attacks targeted Dnipro, Kyiv, and Odesa. Around one hundred civilians were injured during the massive assault of April 15–16, when Russia launched more than 700 aerial targets. Russian drone and missile strikes claimed the lives of children in three cities: in Cherkasy, an 8‑year‑old boy was killed on a playground; in Kyiv, a ballistic missile killed a 12‑year‑old child in bed; in Chernihiv, a teenager was found dead under the rubble of a collapsed building. During the week, Russians cynically attacked medics and hospitals, bombed a reservoir, and carried out assaults on civilian vessels. Over the weekend, tragedy struck in Kyiv: six people were killed in a shooting. Among the wounded was a boy whose parents were victims of the assailant.
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Tragic consequences of Russian attacks during Holy Week
On the eve of Easter, Russian forces deliberately struck peaceful towns and villages. The enemy targeted energy infrastructure, administrative buildings during working hours, crowded markets, public transport, cultural and historical landmarks, and the homes of ordinary Ukrainians. Odesa, Nikopol, and Kramatorsk were in mourning for the dead. In Nikopol — a city of about 40,000 residents — more than 100 people have been killed or injured since the beginning of April, according to Ukrainska Pravda. Life. Civilian casualties are also high in Kherson, which remains under constant threat from shelling and remote mining.The scale of destruction to residential areas is captured in photo reports from Odesa, Kharkiv, Sumy, Kherson, and Kramatorsk.
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This week, Russia continued its missile and drone terror against Ukrainian cities. Hundreds of Shahed-type UAVs and dozens of tactical missiles were launched every day — from the well-known Iskander missiles to the latest Grom-1 models.
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This week, Russia continued its missile and drone terror against Ukrainian cities. Hundreds of Shahed-type UAVs and dozens of tactical missiles were launched every day — from the well-known Iskander missiles to the latest Grom-1 models.
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14.10.2024
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Bombed schools, abducted children: how Russian propaganda masks the Kremlin’s crimes.
A new school year has begun in Ukraine under martial law. Only schools equipped with shelters that meet the State Emergency Service’s safety requirements were allowed to open their doors to students this year.
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14.10.2024
Bombed schools, abducted children: how Russian propaganda masks the Kremlin’s crimes.
A new school year has begun in Ukraine under martial law. Only schools equipped with shelters that meet the State Emergency Service’s safety requirements were allowed to open their doors to students this year.
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11.10.2024
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Peeking at the war: the “Warhole” photo series by Georhii Ivanchenko — winner of the MYPH PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE 2024
Photojournalist and documentary photographer Georhii Ivanchenko won the “MYPH PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE 2024” with his series titled *Warhole*. Shot through a door peephole, the series offers an alternative way of looking at the war, leaving room for imagination and drawing attention to small but telling details. In these images, Ivanchenko combines documentary photography with artistic elements, using a deliberately restricted viewpoint to convey the broader context of the war.
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11.10.2024
Peeking at the war: the “Warhole” photo series by Georhii Ivanchenko — winner of the MYPH PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE 2024
Photojournalist and documentary photographer Georhii Ivanchenko won the “MYPH PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE 2024” with his series titled *Warhole*. Shot through a door peephole, the series offers an alternative way of looking at the war, leaving room for imagination and drawing attention to small but telling details. In these images, Ivanchenko combines documentary photography with artistic elements, using a deliberately restricted viewpoint to convey the broader context of the war.
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10.10.2024
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Some of the first volunteers. Training, farewells, and war of the Azov fighters in photos by Vyacheslav Ratynsky and Anatoly Stepanov
Battalion “Azov” was established on May 5, 2014 in the city of Berdyansk as a battalion of the special purpose militia patrol service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine on the basis of the decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. The battalion was formed on the basis of the Ukrainian guerrilla unit “Black Corps”, which voluntarily participated in the Anti-Terrorist Operation in eastern Ukraine, in particular in Kharkiv region and the Azov region in 2014.
Photo Stories
10.10.2024
Some of the first volunteers. Training, farewells, and war of the Azov fighters in photos by Vyacheslav Ratynsky and Anatoly Stepanov
Battalion “Azov” was established on May 5, 2014 in the city of Berdyansk as a battalion of the special purpose militia patrol service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine on the basis of the decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. The battalion was formed on the basis of the Ukrainian guerrilla unit “Black Corps”, which voluntarily participated in the Anti-Terrorist Operation in eastern Ukraine, in particular in Kharkiv region and the Azov region in 2014.
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8.10.2024
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Twice in one day — Kharkiv under fire. The aftermath of Russian glide‑bomb strikes captured in the photographs of Ivan Samoilov.
At around 5 p.m. on October 8, 2024, explosions were heard in Kharkiv for the second time that day. A guided aerial bomb struck an open area next to a densely populated district.
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8.10.2024
Twice in one day — Kharkiv under fire. The aftermath of Russian glide‑bomb strikes captured in the photographs of Ivan Samoilov.
At around 5 p.m. on October 8, 2024, explosions were heard in Kharkiv for the second time that day. A guided aerial bomb struck an open area next to a densely populated district.
Photo Stories
7.10.2024
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A photograph should speak without text. A conversation with Oleksandr Klymenko
We continue with a series of interviews with professional Ukrainian documentarians. About the experience of working as a photojournalist in the newspaper, the experience of filming the war in the Balkans and in Ukraine, as well as about the advantages of black and white photography, we talked with Oleksandr Klymenko.
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7.10.2024
A photograph should speak without text. A conversation with Oleksandr Klymenko
We continue with a series of interviews with professional Ukrainian documentarians. About the experience of working as a photojournalist in the newspaper, the experience of filming the war in the Balkans and in Ukraine, as well as about the advantages of black and white photography, we talked with Oleksandr Klymenko.
Photo Stories
6.10.2024
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Photo with a story: Hello, brother
In such photos, any search for metaphors seems to be an exaggeration for its own sake. Reality is scarier than fiction and interpretation.
Photo Stories
6.10.2024
Photo with a story: Hello, brother
In such photos, any search for metaphors seems to be an exaggeration for its own sake. Reality is scarier than fiction and interpretation.

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