Every day since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began, Meduza’s editors have chosen the top military images from the day before. These photographs contain scenes of cruelty, violence and death, but most of them are not placed under a special plate, which is usually used by the editors to hide such images. In this series of materials, we try to document the war as it is.
Shelling of Odessa
On the night of June 10, Russian troops shelled the Odessa region with missiles and drones. By data Ukrainian authorities, three people died, at least 25 were injured. By words head of the press center of the Southern Security and Defense Forces Natalia Gumenyuk, all Russian drones and missiles were destroyed, but fragments of one of the devices hit the apartment of a multi-storey building – and several more residential buildings were damaged by the blast wave
Serhii Smolientsev / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA
A dilapidated apartment in Odessa after shelling with Russian drones
Serhii Smolientsev / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA
Houseplant on the ground near the apartment of a multi-storey building, which was hurt during Russian shelling
Nina Liashonok / Ukrinform / ZUMA Press Wire / Scanpix / LETA
Serhii Smolientsev / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA
Life in the flooded Kherson
Territories of the Kherson region, flooded after the breakthrough of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky declared about the “shameful indifference” of international organizations to the ecological catastrophe. According to the UN, about 700,000 people have lost access to drinking water in Ukraine.
Roman Pilipey / Getty Images
Residents of the Kherson region with drinking water supplies
Roman Pilipey / Getty Images
Church in Kherson, where those who lost their homes due to the consequences of the catastrophe at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station can receive medicines and food
Seth Herald / Anadolu Agency / ABACAPRESS / ddp images / Vida Press
Volunteers near the boats they work on during rescue operations in the flooded part of Kherson
Genya Savilov / AFP / Scanpix / LETA
Breakthrough of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station in the Nikolaev region
The village of Afanasievka (Afanasovka) in the Nikolaev region is one of the partially flooded settlements, to which, after the disaster at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station and the increase in the water level in the channel of the Dnieper River, completely cut off entrances. 379 people live there. To pump out water, Ukrainian rescuers used motor pumps as emergency pumps.
Oleksii Filippov / AFP / Scanpix / LETA
Oleksii Filippov / AFP / Scanpix / LETA
Residents of Afanasievka are evacuated from the flooded village
Oleksii Filippov / AFP / Scanpix / LETA
A resident of Afanasievka inspects his flooded apartment
Daniel Carde / Anadolu Agency / ABACAPRESS / ddp images / Vida Press
Attack on the Arabat Spit
On the night of June 10, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, presumably with Storm Shadow missiles, fired at a temporary accommodation center for people from the flooded areas of the Kherson region. It is located on the Arabat Spit, a sandy spit with beaches and resort areas that separates the Sivash Bay from the Sea of Azov. One person died informed the head of the occupation “administration” of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo. Mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov declaredthat the blow fell on the recreation center where the Russian military
A fire broke out in a temporary accommodation center after shelling
The main photos of the previous – four hundred and seventy-first – day of the war can be viewed at this link.
2023-06-11 09:08:00
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