Photoreports

Ever wondered what Ukraine’s weapons can do? Meet Bohdana, Ukraine's domestically built howitzer, now destroying Russian forces and leaving craters in their positions.

When Russian forces blew up the Kakhovka Dam on June 6, 2022, thousands of people and dozens of towns were affected. The vast reservoir that once stretched across southern Ukraine turned into a graveyard—fish rotting in the sun, the air thick with decay. Two years later, a sprawling willow forest now rises where water once shimmered.

When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it shook the world. For many Americans, it was another headline — something happening “over there.” But for some of the US veterans and volunteers, it was a call to action. They packed bags, bought one-way tickets, and entered a war that wasn’t theirs, at least not by birth. For them, it became a matter of principle.

“Pavlo, can you hear me? Don’t touch your face.” In a Lviv hospital, a doctor reassures his patient just moments after surgery. Pavlo lies on a gurney, barely awake from anesthesia, instinctively reaching to feel what he now looks like. His procedure was one of 26 performed this week by US and Ukrainian surgeons as part of the “Face to Face” medical mission.

At a Ukrainian military training ground, foreign fighters are learning what it takes to survive trench warfare. Many are American and British volunteers—some with prior military service, others with none—now training under Ukraine’s 25th Airborne Brigade “Sicheslav”.

Russia turned the skies over Kyiv into a killing field overnight on May 7, 2025, launching a wave of missiles and suicide drones that killed at least two people—a mother and her son—and injured eight others, including four children, reducing civilian homes to smoking wreckage.