Russia deliberately targets civilian homes, public transport, and evacuation vehicles. The week in Ukraine began with mourning for those killed in the March 8 missile strike on a residential building in Kharkiv. And on the night before the weekend, Russians brutally attacked the Kyiv region with drones and missiles. The enemy is trying to inflict material damage by striking industrial facilities and disrupting civilian logistics in frontline and border regions by attacking the railway. Donetsk, Sumy, and Zaporizhzhia regions suffer from airstrikes — the enemy is destroying historic buildings and well‑known architectural ensembles of Ukrainian cities. Every day, the occupying army devastates the urban landscape of Kherson. In total, over the week, Russia used 1,770 attack drones, more than 1,530 glide bombs, and 86 missiles — including over 20 ballistic ones — against Ukraine.

After the full‑scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army, the panorama of cities located near the front line will never be the same. It is a point of no return to the life that once existed: people are killed or forced to flee, and buildings are burned by enemy weapons. The permanence of war turns Ukrainian cities into directions on the map. One such city is the hero city of Orikhiv. For four years now, Ukraine’s Defense Forces have been holding the line in this sector. The line of contact is rather blurred and dynamic, and according to DeepState, it lies approximately 7–10 kilometers from Orikhiv. The news agency Ukrinform reports that Russian units have been tasked with advancing as close as possible to Orikhiv and securing positions on its outskirts.

Eternal memory to the brave and talented photographers who were killed while documenting the Russian invasion or while defending their country with a rifle instead of a camera.

“Thermal Objects” is one of the projects selected within the third annual micro‑grant program supporting Ukrainian documentarians, implemented by UAPP. The goal of the program is to support authors who continue to record the experience of a country resisting aggression and who create visual evidence of events that define the history of contemporary Ukraine. The program is carried out with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ukraine.

Liza Bukreeva’s photobook “Here They Build Houses from Ash” is a story about the everyday lives of civilians in de‑occupied and frontline territories, where everything may seem ordinary — until you look closer. It is not a story about trauma itself, but about attempts to live with it, to move forward, and to make plans — if not for a distant future, then at least for the coming spring. It is a story about creating a home amid ruins and transforming objects made for killing into things used for living. Liza Bukreeva speaks about how people make plans while surrounded by minefields, how they create comfort out of ammunition crates, about life inside an administrative building and a grave in a backyard, and also about the very delicious pastries baked by the local priest.

With the beginning of spring, Russian attacks on Ukraine’s railway and port infrastructure continue. There were strikes on railway substations, railcars, and bridges, and a civilian vessel was damaged in a port in the south of Odesa region. Missiles, drones, and aerial bombs hit Druzhkivka, Sloviansk, and Kramatorsk every day. On the night of March 7, Russia carried out the fifth massive attack on Ukraine’s energy facilities since the start of the year. That night became tragic for Kharkiv — according to preliminary information, a Russian “Izdeliye‑30” missile destroyed an entire apartment block entrance, killing 11 people, including two children.