We spoke with photojournalist Vadim Ghirda about good and evil, disillusionment and hope, beauty and fear. About journalism and its increasingly complicated relationship with the truth, about the unsung heroes who make the work of war correspondents possible. About the baggage of suffering he has amassed in the 34 years that he has spent working at the heart of conflicts all over the world.
I worked for over a month as a volunteer trying to help Ukrainian refugees in Bucharest, and this is what I found.
The story of a 26-year-old Ukrainian about war, captivity and Chernobyl.
We went to the Palanca border and to Chișinău, in order to write about both the people who managed to escape the bullets and those who are receiving them.
How, where and with what justification could Russia launch an attack?
Ukraine’s capital is a memorial not only to the sacrifice of the oppressed against greater odds, but also to willpower, dynamism and revival.
Indian medicine students who fled the conflict in Ukraine are hosted in a family from a southern Romanian village.
A young woman from Kharkiv speaks about her daily life, the idea of leaving her mom behind and flee alone and the future relationship between Ukrainians and Russians.
We spoke to a member of the Russian Pirate Party about the country's president, the war, and (dis)information on the internet
A Russian journalist speaks about propaganda, media censorship and solidarity with Ukraine.
Photographer Mikhail Kalarashan is documenting the life of a single mother, a refugee from Eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian war refugees have started arriving in Moldova and a camp has been set up for them in the country's southernmost village.
“You cannot imagine what it’s like on the other side,” says Lili, a Ukrainian woman who entered Romania on foot with her son.
We set out through the villages lining the border, in order to see what the locals have to say about the Russian-Ukrainian crisis and to meet the Ukrainian Hutsuls in the mountainous regions of Bukovina.
I tried to help an Afghan engineer get out of her country and I failed. However, I did manage to get her story across the border.