Izyum is a town in the Kharkiv region which was occupied for 6 months. There was no electricity, gas, water, mobile connection or Internet for most of the time for the majority of the population.
Izyum and the nearby villages is the most affected terrain, which the team of Maidan Monitoring Information Centre documented so far.
International teams of investigators found there mass graves, torture chambers and humanitarian disaster after liberation in September 2022.
Izyum, Pokrovska Street 3. 44 people were killed there. As seen from the drone on Oct 17, 2022. Photo by Yevhen Tytarenko.
Izyum, Kharkiv region. Woman is collecting wood from the rubbles of a school for cooking on the fire outdoors. As of October 1, 2022 there was no gas, no electricity, no water. Photo was taken on Oct 01, 2022 by Yevhen Tytarenko.
Izyum, Kharkiv region. Exhumation of a mass grave. At a moment the picture is taken the count of corpses was 448. Photo was taken on Sep 23, 2022 by Yevhen Tytarenko.
Izyum, Kharkiv region. Gym in the destroyed School #4. Photo was taken on Oct 01, 2022 by Kateryna Svid.
Balakliya, Kharkiv region. Signs on the wall of a torture chamber. Photo was taken on Sep 20, 2022 by Yevhen Tytarenko.
Izyum, Kharkiv region. 2 Pokrovska Street. Photo was taken on on Jan 17, 2023 by Yuliia Hush.
Izyum, Kharkiv region. The “fireplaces” people cook on. Photo was taken on Oct 01, 2022 by Oleksii Svid.
Izyum, Kharkiv region. Liceum #1 in after multiple shelling and bombing. Photo was taken on Sep 30, 2022 by Nataliya Zubar.
Izyum, Kharkiv region. Pokrovska Street. The sign says: “Beware of Mines”. Photo was taken on Sep 30, 2022 by Nataliya Zubar.
The photos were taken by the Maidan Monitoring Information Centre while helping the Ukrainian state investigators to document Russian war crimes in the Kharkiv region.
This project has been funded by Crown Agents International Development.
Photographers – Yuliia Hush, Serhii Petrov, Yevhen Tytarenko, Kateryna and Oleksii Svid, Petr Pojman, Adam Sybera, Nataliya Zubar and our drones. Designer – Darya Semenyuk. Curator – Nataliya Zubar. This exhibition is presented together with Team 4 Ukraine.
