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Sadak Souici / Le Pictorium - Kharkiv: Frontline - 5/6/2022 - Ukraine / Kharkiv - Stanislav Shryryayev has organised an association to distribute food aid in the bombed-out areas of Kharkiv. Hundreds of thousands of the city's inhabitants have reportedly been made homeless by the Russian strikes.
Sadak Souici / Le Pictorium - Kharkiv: Frontline - 4/6/2022 - Ukraine / Kharkiv - Levani, a Georgian volunteer driving an armoured personnel carrier, on the Ukrainian side. "I saw Russia bombing my own country, so I joined to defend the freedom of the Ukrainian people," says the gunner.
Sadak Souici / Le Pictorium - Kharkiv: Frontline - 4/6/2022 - Ukraine / Kharkiv - A troop carrier leaves a position on the Kharkiv frontline. Ukrainian gunners have to be particularly careful about camouflaging their equipment. The Russians have much better drones than we do," says a senior Ukrainian officer. We are only equipped with commercial drones, 70% of which are immediately intercepted. They are like a cigarette: they are single-use.
Sadak Souici / Le Pictorium - Kharkiv: Frontline - 4/6/2022 - Ukraine / Kharkiv - The Ukrainian army is preparing for a long-term conflict and is burying itself in trenches. Russian territory is only a few dozen kilometres away. "The people of Kharkiv have historically been very close to Russia, but that period is now over," says a Russian-speaking Ukrainian soldier from the city.
Sadak Souici / Le Pictorium - Kharkiv: Frontline - 4/6/2022 - Ukraine / Kharkiv - A group of Ukrainian artillerymen prepare for an offensive in the shelter of a hangar in Kharkiv. "Our guns date from the Soviet era and have a range of only 15 kilometres, while Russia has far more and better equipment," laments Major Anton, who leads the battalion. "We desperately need Western guns, the outcome of the war depends on it," says a Ukrainian colonel.
Sadak Souici / Le Pictorium - Kharkiv: Frontline - 4/6/2022 - Ukraine / Kharkiv - The body of a Russian soldier near the front line, north of Kharkiv, photographed by a Ukrainian soldier. The Ukrainians say they let Russian troops collect their dead a fortnight ago. "Unlike Russia, we respect the laws of war," says one commander.
Sadak Souici / Le Pictorium - Kharkiv: Frontline - 4/6/2022 - Ukraine / Kharkiv - A Ukrainian soldier cleans his machine gun in a camp in the forest surrounding Kharkiv. "We are targeted every day, and have lost several men," says his commander. In addition to the powerful Russian artillery, the Ukrainian army is also facing ballistic missile fire from the border town of Belgorod. According to recent figures given by the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian army is losing between 60 and 100 fighters per day.
Sadak Souici / Le Pictorium - Kharkiv: Frontline - 4/6/2022 - Ukraine / Kharkiv - A Ukrainian armoured personnel carrier camouflaged in the vicinity of Kharkiv. Despite having pushed back Russian forces north of the country's second city, the Ukrainian army continues to face daily assaults from enemy artillery.
Sadak Souici / Le Pictorium - Kharkiv: Frontline - 4/6/2022 - Ukraine / Kharkiv - Two Ukrainian artillerymen travel to the front line on the edge of Kharkiv. "We use our own cars to go to the front, everyone is willing. Can you imagine the Russians using their own vehicles to go and fight? In the background, a song in praise of Volodymyr Zelensky: "I didn't vote for you first, I thought you were just a clown. But now I have immense respect for you. Kill them all!
Sadak Souici / Le Pictorium - Kharkiv: Frontline - 4/6/2022 - Ukraine / Kharkiv - In the northern suburbs of Kharkiv, a few kilometres from the front line, residents have gathered in front of their building, which was burnt down by a missile strike. "The Russians are striking in a totally erratic way," they said.
Sadak Souici / Le Pictorium - Kharkiv: Frontline - 4/6/2022 - Ukraine / Kharkiv - A resident of the Saltivka neighbourhood on the outskirts of Kharkiv stands at the entrance to his flat, which was burnt out by a missile strike. "I have nowhere to go, because the shelters are full. So I continue to live here," he says.
Sadak Souici / Le Pictorium - Kharkiv: Frontline - 4/6/2022 - Ukraine / Kharkiv - Hundreds of thousands of residents have seen their homes devastated by Russian strikes. In the working-class district of Saltivka, north-east of Kharkiv, hundreds of apartment blocks have been gutted. "Kharkiv is so close to Russia geographically and economically that the war could doom the city for a long time. Even if the war stops, no foreign company will want to invest there. This means that there will be no money to rebuild the infrastructure, which has been damaged to the tune of billions of dollars," says one resident.
Sadak Souici / Le Pictorium - Kharkiv: Frontline - 4/6/2022 - Ukraine / Kharkiv - A building ripped open by Russian fire in a district north of Kharkiv. According to the Prosecutor General of the Kharkiv region, Russia has committed no less than 1,400 war crimes there since the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022.
Sadak Souici / Le Pictorium - Kharkiv: Frontline - 4/6/2022 - Ukraine / Kharkiv - "Watch out, incoming artillery fire" was tagged on this truck parked on a street at the entrance of the Saltivka neighborhood, north of Kharkiv. "Even if the Russian have been pushed further away from our city, it might never be the same ever again. No international companies will ever invest in a city that close to the Russian border anymore" worries a Kharkiv business owner.
