Ukraine: Two years of war, 2022-2024
February 24, 2024 marks the two-year anniversary of the start of the invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin’s Russian troops.
Two years during which Ukrainian counter-offensives have responded to Russian offensives, fixing the front lines without any significant breakthrough on either side.
Two years during which the civilian population has supported the war effort and their soldiers, on the front line, the inhabitants of Kyiv have had to endure repeated power cuts in the middle of winter, and those of the Zaporijia region are preparing for a nuclear catastrophe from the power station that has felt under Russian control.
Two years during which soldiers and civilians alike continue to pay with their blood (if not with their lives) for the cost of a conflict that is set to last.
Although Guillaume Herbaut has been traveling the country since 2001, witnessing the Orange Revolution, Euromaïdan and the latent conflict in the Donbass, he has continued to visit Ukraine since February 2022, tirelessly bringing back stories of shattered lives, broken faces, mass graves, villages abandoned to the shelling, permanent danger but where, in the end, surrender remains an impossible option.
Pictures made on assignment for Le Monde.
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