“Ukraine is turning Kherson into a military zone,” “residents live under constant pressure and fear” — this is reported with ostentatious concern by the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti, quoting the so‑called governor of Kherson region, Volodymyr Saldo. Collaborator Saldo chose to cooperate with the Russian authorities and headed the occupied Kherson region; he is the main mouthpiece of enemy propaganda in the region.

In the capital, the aftermath of a massive missile‑drone attack is still being eliminated; it claimed the lives of seven civilians and caused destruction and fires. The city of Dnipro suffered a brutal strike, with 16 civilians killed; the enemy attacked the city and district again on the very day of mourning. In Donetsk region, new airstrikes on Kramatorsk and Druzhkivka brought more deaths. Occupiers shelled Kherson daily with artillery and drones, as well as remotely mined territories. Regional centers and communities in frontline and border areas also suffered.

According to verified NSJU data, as of 30 October 2025 at least 28 civilian media workers remain in Russian captivity. Russia is also holding at least one media professional who had mobilized to defend Ukraine within the Defence Forces.

Andrii Kasianchuk’s project is a continuation of his father’s practice, who kept a school diary of observations in 1989–1993, shortly after the Chornobyl nuclear disaster. Kasianchuk chronicles today’s catastrophe — the ecocide caused by the full‑scale Russian‑Ukrainian war. Using digital media, he collects evidence of the war’s impact on nature — from fires and polluted rivers to the disappearance of species and transformation of the landscape. The digital environment becomes a field of modern observation, where data, images, and messages from the network acquire the status of documents of the time.

Marinka, once a cozy town of 10,000 near Donetsk, since 2014 together with neighboring Krasnohorivka turned into a powerful defensive line. The story of heroic resistance in the Marinka sector is above all an epic of the superhuman resilience of Ukrainian soldiers who fought for every fragment of wall. It is also a memory of eight years of life for local residents on the line of separation, which after February 24, 2022, became a hell of total war. The enemy applied a scorched‑earth tactic in this direction — just as in Bakhmut — erasing the city from the face of the earth block by block. Ukrainian defenders withdrew from Marinka in December 2023, when only ruins remained of the city. Photojournalist Anatolii Stepanov, who has been documenting this war since 2014, told about the shelling of Marinka and the heroes who held this stronghold.

The exposure time needed to create an ambrotype lasts on average seven seconds. In the reality of war, this span can turn into a fragile pause between explosions, into the moment of death for many people, or into the instant when light falls onto the glass plate and preserves the image of a soldier. During this time, the fighter remains alone with himself, and his seven seconds of life are forever captured on glass.