life under the bombs

The images of the destruction of some thirty tanks and Russian military equipment, in Izioum in the Donbasswere provided by the Ukrainian government to claim tactical victories. But in the trenches, on the front line, Ukrainian soldiers continue to come under intense Russian pressure. And the people too. On the road to Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, hundreds of cars and families are huddled together.

Ukrainians flee their village which has just been bombed. “Our house burned down last night and everything in it. We have nowhere to go, it’s terrifying”says a woman. Not sure that she and all the others will find peace in Kharkiv, which was still intensely pounded on the night of Friday April 29 to Saturday April 30. In the buildings in ruins, the life of the inhabitants hangs by a thread.