A heart-ripping display of russia’s war crimes in Ukraine was first exhibited at WEF 2022 in Davos and spread from thereon
The exhibition shows photographs taken from all over Ukraine from the start of the war. Even so, it only addresses a fraction of the known crimes. While doing so, the exhibition gives back faces and names to Ukrainians that have turned into statistics. It brings back people to numbers and within the overwhelming amount of crimes, offers some of the victims a place to speak and share their story.
Mariupol, Ukraine — February 27, 2022
Mstyslav Chernov
Doctors try to resuscitate a girl fatally wounded in Russian shelling.
Mariupol, Ukraine — March 7, 2022
Mstyslav Chernov
Body covered by a tarp, lying in a street.
Ukraine —
March 9, 2022
Mstyslav Chernov
Mariupol, Burial of the killed in a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol. Due to heavy shelling by Russian forces. This is the only way to bury the dead in the city.
The exhibition shows photographs taken from all over Ukraine from the start of the war till the beginning of May.
Even so, it only addresses a fraction of the known crimes.
A film by Oleksiy Sai
Mariupol, Burial of the killed in a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol. Due to heavy shelling by Russian forces. This is the only way to bury the dead in the city.
We are grateful to the photographers who risk their lives documenting Russia's war crimes.
A film by Oleksiy Sai
Photographers cited in the video:
Lisa Bukreyeva, Hlib Butenko, Maxim Dondyuk, Pavel Dorogoy, Yurko Dyachyshy, Ivan Ermakov, Oleksiy Furman, Alyona Grom, Marcus Heep, George Ivanchenko, Mykhailo Karlovskiy, Oleksandr Khomenko, Serhii Korovayniy, Eduard Kryzhanivskyi, Oleksandr Kulikov, Maryan Kushnir, Dmytro Larin, Maksym Levin, Yevhen Maloletka, Volodymyr Matsokin, Valeriy Melnyk, Serhiy Mikhalchuk, Kateryna Moskaliuk, Serhii Nuzhnenko, Mikhail Palinchak, Christina Pashkina, Pavlo Petrov, Oleksandr Popenko, Diana Popovich, Vyacheslav Ratinskiy, Oleksiy Sai, Petro Sazonov, Yana Sidash, Alina Smutko, Volodymyr Subotovskyi, Eli Tyler, Mykola Tymchenko, Oleksandr Zakletskiy, Yevhenii Zavhorodnii
The exhibition gives back faces and names to Ukrainians that have turned into statistics.
It offers some victims a place to speak and share their story.
Incomplete map of Russian war crimes in Ukraine by the 9th of May, 2022
“Everything started to suddenly crumble and fall. The children screamed. For several seconds, it was like there was silence and time stood still. Then I dragged my children out from under the rubble. Blood was flowing down me, and I dragged my children out.”
— Yulia Matvienko, 33, mother-of-three, Chernihiv
“Once the tanks had passed by, I jumped over the fence to the neighbor’s house. I wanted to check if they’re alive. I looked over the fence and saw my mother lying on her back on one side of the road, and my father was face down on the other side of the street. I saw large holes in his coat. The next day I went to them. My father had six large holes in his back, my mother had a smaller hole in her chest.”
— Kateryna Tkachova, 18, Bohdanivka, Kyiv region
Discussion:
Protecting human rights during the war
kraine by the 9th of May, 2022
— Liudmyla Denisova, Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights
— Kenneth Roth, Executive director of Human Rights Watch
Moderator:
— John Herbst, Director, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council
The Russian War Crimes House takes place inside the former Russia House
— a symbolic gesture that brings a reality about Russia to the attention of the world.
Kharkiv, Ukraine - March 25, 2022
Philip Cheung
Severed hand lying on the ground after a Russian shelling hit a post office where civilians were waiting in line to get humanitarian aid. Six people were killed in the attack and 15 more injured.
Criminals should be brought to justice!
Agenda / Public program
OPENING (watch live stream)
— Victor Pinchuk, Founder, VPF, YES
— Andrii Yermak, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine - online
— Egils Levits, President of Latvia
— Liudmyla Denisova, Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights
— Oksana Kyrsanova, an anesthesiologist doctor from Mariupol
— Anatolii Fedoruk, Mayor of Bucha
Followed by a press point:
— Björn Geldhof, Artistic Director, PAC
— Liudmyla Denisova, Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights
— Ivan Fedorov, Mayor of Melitopol
— Björn Geldhof, Artistic Director, PAC (moderator)
Panel Discussion:
Protecting human rights during the war (watch live stream)
— Liudmyla Denisova, Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights
— Kenneth Roth, Executive director of Human Rights Watch
— John Herbst, Director, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council (moderator)
Ukrainian House program
Discussion: How to return after suffering (recorded on YouTube)
—Ivan Fedorov, Mayor of Melitopol
— Anatolii Fedoruk, Mayor of Bucha
— Vadym Boichenko, Mayor of Mariupol (joins online)
— Oleksii Kuleba, Head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration
— Eugene Finkel, Associate Professor School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
— Kersti Kaljulaid, Member, YES Board (moderator)
Ukrainian House program (14:00 — 15:00 closed)
Ukrainian House program
Ukrainian Breakfast (watch live stream)
Where is the war going, and what will the future of Ukraine and the world look like after the war?
— Victor Pinchuk, Founder, VPF, YES
— Timothy Snyder, the Richard C. Levin Professor of History
— Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
— Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, members of the Ukrainian parliament
— Fareed Zakaria, host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN (moderator)
— and other participants
YES Board Meeting and Discussion with MPs
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