They Were Not Soldiers

This curated project shares photographs and personal perspectives from the Ukrainian front lines, focusing on the lived experiences of those often reduced to a single label. Through their own images, it explores how fathers, daughters, and ordinary people cope, survive, and hold onto humanity in extraordinary circumstances.

Pokrovsk in 2026

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These are truly horrifying images.


The city is almost completely destroyed. There is not a single intact building left. Everything is ruined. Everything is gone.

This is what the “ruzzian world” brings.
This is what a city looks like now – a city that, just a year and a half ago, was still alive, thriving, full of people and normal civilian life.


Now it looks like this.


But Ukrainian Armed Forces reconnaissance continues to work, even behind enemy lines – identifying enemy positions so they can be effectively destroyed.

Glory to Ukraine.💪🫡⚔️🇺🇦