“In Sumy, the earth listens to the sky” - this is how Konstantin Liberov says about the border city. Recently, together with his wife Vlada, he documented Sumy region, a region that since the summer of 2024 has become a new hot spot along the front line. The Liberians record war not as a chronicle of explosions, but as a human being on the verge. In a conversation for the UAPF, Konstantin talks about the silence that holds the pain, the shots that cannot be shot, and why the worst is not the front, but the internal border between “here” and “there”.

З 12 по 22 червня у Берліні триває Dokumentale’25 — Міжнародний фестиваль документального кіно та медіа, в межах якого буде представлено виставку «Mariupol – The City That Refused to Die» у співпраці з Українською асоціацією професійних фотографів (UAPP).

Before the full-scale invasion, Soledar was a deep rear — a city of mines, salt lakes, and silence. The war wiped it all away. All that remains are photographs, destroyed five-story buildings, and a single exhibition that has been turned into a memorial.

In Vasylkiv, Kyiv region, 27-year-old Hanna Yefimenko was buried — a woman who died on the night of May 18 during a massive Russian drone attack. A direct hit on a residential building destroyed her home. At the moment of the strike, Hanna covered her 4-year-old son Mark with her body. The boy survived but suffered shrapnel wounds to his face — doctors are fighting to save his eyesight. Photojournalist Anton Shuka documented the tragedy of the Yefimenko family, which has become yet another great wound for Ukrainian society.

During the week of May 19-25, 2025, Ukraine suffered one of the largest waves of attacks from Russia. Missile and drone strikes hit dozens of cities, causing numerous casualties, injuries, and destruction of civilian infrastructure. Kyiv, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Zhytomyr, Kharkiv, and Khmelnytskyi were the most affected. The attack on the capital on the eve of Kyiv Day was particularly cynical.

On May 20, 2022, the withdrawal of Ukrainian defenders from Azovstal was completed, a symbol of invulnerability that held the defense in Mariupol surrounded by Russian troops for 86 days. Families of the defenders of “Azovstal” are still waiting for the return of their loved ones from Russian captivity. Today, the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers publishes footage of the photographer, at that time a soldier of the Azov regiment Dmitry (Orest) Kozatsky, taken on the territory of the plant during the defense, as well as a conversation with him — about photography, war, captivity and the right to pause.