Letters from Ukraine
Ukraine — Letters from Ukraine
This series is a series of short stories made in larger reports for RTVE (Spanish radio and television) during my trip to Ukraine in which we traveled around the country for more than 4 weeks.
Stories that tell us the reality of war. The ones that each of these people has been suffering since 24 February 2022 when Russia decided to invade Ukraine. A war that has been spreading like a spider's web across the country since that day. From the basements where they spend the nights hidden for fear of bombs, to the military training camps for civilians, and even to a morgue where a young girl searches for her father among the remains of corpses that pile up in a room as a result of the bombings.
This photographic series tells different stories from all over the country of how war is knocking on every door of the Ukrainian population. From the rusty smell of death to the metal of the train tracks, in this short selection of photographs, we can see the story of those who stayed behind and those who sought a chance away from the sound of bombs.
Ukraine — Letters from Ukraine
Thousands of people gather at the Lviv-Holovnyi train station in western Ukraine in an attempt to leave the country to flee the war.
Ukraine — Letters from Ukraine
Ukraine — Letters from Ukraine
Ukraine — Letters from Ukraine
7-year-old Olona in an old World War II shelter where she and her mother and sister go every time the sirens sound in the city of Mykolaiv for fear of bombing. The town is key to the Russian troops' advance towards Odessa. Since the start of the offensive, 27 civilians have been killed and hundreds wounded in the city because of the constant shelling. Out of a population of 500,000, more than half have already fled westwards.
Ukraine — Letters from Ukraine
Ukraine — Letters from Ukraine
Ukraine — Letters from Ukraine
Entrance to the Mykolaiv morgue where bodies are piling up and overflowing; of the 30 corpses arriving each day, more than a third are civilians. In the mornings, many relatives come in search of their loved ones.
Ana, 37, after finding the lifeless body of her father who disappeared three days ago in a bombing in the southern Ukrainian town of Mykolaiv. The town is a key point for Russian troops in their advance towards Odessa... Out of a population of 500,000, more than half have already fled westwards. The morgue is overflowing with bodies, and of the 30 corpses arriving each day, more than a third are civilians
Ukraine — Letters from Ukraine