30/06 – 05/07. How Ukraine is resisting Russian occupation. Photo digest №22

30.06.-01.07.

30.06

30.06 Zmiinyi island
A satellite image of Zmiinyi island, abandoned by the Russian military after they suffered heavy losses.

01.07 Chernihiv, Sivershchyna
Men ride their bicycles in the streets of Chernihiv.

01.07 Location unknown
A defender of Mariupol, liberated during an exchange of prisoners of war, is helped onto an evacuation bus by paramedics.

01.07 Tavria
A member of Ukraine’s Armed Forces surveys the surrounding area using binoculars, with the Ukrainian flag flying behind him.

01.07 Slobozhanshchyna
A Ukrainian serviceman, defending his country in the Izium area.

01.07 Zaporizhzhia, Podniprovia and Zaporizhzhia
Children choose toys at a centre for temporary displaced persons. The words on the chalkboard read: “Glory to Ukraine’s Armed Forces”.

01.07 Kremenchuk, Poltavshchyna
A doctor examines a man who was injured as a result of the Russian missile attack on the ‘Amstor’ shopping mall in Kremenchuk.

01.07 Chernihiv, Sivershchyna
A man with his bike in front of a multi-storey residential building hit by a Russian missile.

02-03.07.

UNESCO has listed Ukrainian borscht as an intangible cultural heritage. The demolition of the building rubble left behind after a Russian missile strike continues in Serhiyivka. Farmers work tirelessly in the fields to provide Ukrainians with food.

02.07

03.07 Antarctica
Oleg Kurus, the cook of the 27th Ukrainian Antarctic Expedition, cooked Ukrainian borscht to celebrate its recognition as intangible heritage by UNESCO.

03.07 Bucha, Polissia
A man repairs the roof of his house which was damaged during the Russian shelling.

03.07 Lviv, Halychyna
This cat belongs to a man who was evacuated from Lysychansk, and currently lives in a modular town for temporarily displaced persons.

03.07 Kyiv
A boy in a train carriage on the Kyiv Children’s Railway.

03.07 Mykolaiv, Prychornomoria
A wooden cross at a burial site next to a children’s swing.

02.07 Serhiivka, Bessarabia
Rescuers continue to clear rubble after a Russian missile attack.

03.07 Sloviansk, Slobozhanshchyna
Residents of Sloviansk after a Russian rocket fire on residential buildings. Behind them is an emergency service vehicle.

02.07 Tavria
A burst from a missile hit nearby civilian infrastructure.

03.07
Farmers mow hay in the field.

04-05.07.

The R*ssian invaders continue to advance in the east of Slobozhanshchyna, trying to establish complete control over these areas. The evacuation of civilians from the temporarily occupied territories of southern Ukraine continues. People are settling into new temporary homes in safer areas.

04.07

05.07
A sunflower by the road. Behind it is a road sign that reads “Go f*ck yourself. Go f*ck yourself again. F*ck off to R*ssia.”

05.07 Okhtyrka, Slobozhanshchyna
A residential building with a broken window covered with a folk print blanket.

05.07 Slobozhanshchyna
Fighters of an elite unit defending Ukraine in the eastern direction.

05.07 Zaporizhzhia, Podniprovia and Zaporizhzhia
An evacuation bus arriving in Zaporizhzhia from Tavria.

05.07 Zaporizhia, Podniprovia and Zaporizhzhia
Children’s drawings on the wall of the Zaporizhzhia Reception Centre for displaced persons.

05.07 Lviv, Halychyna
A mother and children living in a modular town for temporarily displaced persons.

05.07 Kyiv
The burial ceremony of a soldier of the Azov regiment.

05.07 Kyiv
A monument reinforced with sandbags as protection against blast waves and shrapnel.

04.07
Multi-storey buildings that were damaged as a result of Russian shelling.