1.500.000 people lived in Kharkiv before 24 February 2022. It had the biggest number of students per capita in Ukraine.
110 schools, 100+ kindergartens and 50+ hospitals have been damaged in Kharkiv as of August 17, 2022.
Karazin Kharkiv National University is a leading Ukrainian university founded in 1805). The whole University will be able to work only via distance learning due to security conditions and damages to their various buildings.
The building of the Institute of Economics of the Karazin Kharkiv National University damaged by a Russian missile on March 2, 2022. Aerial photo is taken from our drone on May 13, 2022
The building of the Institute of Economics of the Karazin Kharkiv National University damaged by a Russian missile on March 2, 2022. Photo by Yuliia Hush taken on March 23, 2022.
The Kharkiv Higher Vocational School No. 6 was severely damaged by the Russian airstrike. This is the destroyed and burnt library of the school. Photo was taken on Aug 02, 2022 by Yuliia Hush.
Institute of State Management of the Karazin Kharkiv National University badly damaged by a Russian missile on March 18, 2022.
A classroom of the Gymnasium #46 damaged by the Russian rocket strike.A room of a destroyed kindergarten in Kharkiv. The name of the kindergarten is School of joy, it focused on English language studies.Kharkiv, 11/13 Svobody Street. A residential building was hit by a C-300 missile, 3 people were injured and were under rubble. Rescuers are trying to find them and put out the fire that broke out after part of the building was destroyed. Photo was taken on Sep 06, 2022 by Kateryna Svid.
Kharkiv, 8 Svobody Street. On March 1-2, 2022, a four-story residential building from 1911, which was an architectural monument. The building was destroyed as a result of an airstrike by an unguided bomb. In the basement was the “Old Hem” pub, named after the American writer Ernest Hemingway. The institution was popular among the city’s youth. There are wounded and dead as a result of the shelling.
Kharkiv. An apartment building partially destroyed by the Russian rocket in the center of the city. Photo was taken on Aug 16, 2022 by Kateryna Svid.
The cat, which was left without a roof over its head, stays next to what is left of the house.
Kharkiv, 8 Svobody Street. A quarter in the center of Kharkiv with almost every building damaged. In the absence of people cats took control. Photo was taken on Aug 16, 2022 by Kateryna Svid.
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.
