“Русский Мир” (Russkiy Mir — “Russian world”) is an old concept of shared slavic civilisation that reach beyond Russia’s motherland.
The Kremlin has been pushing a revival the Russian World that extends far from Russia’s geographical
borders and even far from the borders of the Russian ethnicity as the collapse of the Soviet Union is perceived as an ideological calamity.
The recent invasion of Ukraine is the new addendum to Russkyi Mir.
A Russian rocket landed through the roof of a kitchen in Derhachi, north of Kharkiv. 06 May 2022.
Wedding of firefighter Dima and Anastasiya. They choose a building ruined by missile strike as backdrop for their wedding photos. Kharkiv. 08 May 2022.
Nicolai outside his house destroyed by Russian shelling in Vilkhivka, a small town liberated from Russian occupation, east of Kharkiv. He survives the strike while being inside with his wife. 16 May 2022.
Slatyne town liberated from Russian occupation. Front line is 4 kilometers north, constant shelling can be heard. North of Kharkiv. 17 May 2022.
Destroyed Ukrainian armored carriers APC in Tsyrkuny, a small town northeast of Kharkiv liberated from Russian occupation. Russian army was shelling Kharkiv from this area. 11 May 2022.
Choir rehearsing Bee Gees hit "Stayin' Alive" for a video commercial. Kharkiv. 08 May 2022.
Tsyrkuny town northeast of Kharkiv liberated from Russian occupation. A looted car with Russian Z marking in a private house. 12 May 2022.
Bakhmut residents are evacuated, near Kramatorsk in Donetsk oblast. A man hugs a woman before she boards a bus leaving town. 21 May 2022.
Destructions from Russian missile strikes in Prokrovsk, Donbass. Two days after the strike, locals continue to scavenge food from under a pulverised wagon loaded with humanitarian assistance supplied to the north of Donetsk region by the organization World Central Kitchen. 16 June 2022.
Residents took shelter in Maselskogo metro station. Children clear chairs after a show was performed for them. Kharkiv. 05 May 2022.
Ukrainian militaries survey a destroyed Ukrainian 2S7 203mm self-propelled howitzer in Vilkhivka, a town liberated from Russian occupation near Kharkiv. 14 May 2022.
In Saltivka northeastern district, Timofey Vichnevsky is caring for his ill mother Tamara, 82. As the bedroom was damaged by a nearby Russian shelling, she was moved to the kitchen. No doctors or nurses comes to this area regularly beaten by Russian bombing. He doesn't have the needed medicine for her. Few days later Tamara died of a heart attack during a shelling. Kharkiv. 04 May 2022.
A mining industry building seconds after it was hit by a shell in Soledar, near Bakhmut in Donetsk oblast. 21 May 2022.
Residents board buses to evacuate Sloviansk as Russian army gains ground in Donbass. 04 June 2022.
Pennyless residents wait at a food distribution center in city of Kramatorsk in Donbass. 02 June 2022.
A cold war era nuclear bunker under an old factory was converted to a shelter that is now housing about 60 residents who don't feel safe enough to stay home, in Derhachi, north of Kharkiv. 06 May 2022.
Ukrainian army tanks moving north of Bakhmut in Donbass. 07 June 2022.
Mother holding her daughter during Sunday religious service at Kramatorsk's Holy Trinity cathedral, Donbass. As Russian army gains ground, the nearest frontline is about 20 kms from Kramatorsk. 08 June 2022.
Two destroyed bridges crossing Siverskyi Donetsk River in Raihorodok Sloviansk. The opposite bank is no more under Ukrainian control. Now closed, that road links Sloviansk to Lyman. Donbass. 06 June 2022.
From front line city of Lysychansk, view of the Azot chemical plant in Sievierodonetsk where hundreds of civilians are sheltering. Sieverodonetsk is under constant shelling from Russian army, Donbass. 14 June 2022.
Lysychansk city under shelling from Russian army. Residents wait in a shelter after three shells exploded nearby. Donbass. 19 June 2022.
