On the night of 3 November, the Russians attacked Ukraine with forty Shahid drones and one X-59 guided missile from the airspace of the temporarily occupied Kherson region. 24 drones and one missile were shot down. The Ukrainian Air Force reported.
Russian forces carried out 10 drone strikes in Kharkiv and the surrounding area. At around 00:45 there was a series of strikes on Kharkiv. Mayor Igor Terekhov later said Russia had hit civilian objects. Law enforcement officials recorded damage to private homes, an educational institution, and cars in the Osnovianskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts of the city.
"Two garages, 4 cars, and an outbuilding were damaged. One educational institution was partially destroyed. A petrol station building, an abandoned sewing shop, and a residential building were also damaged. There were fires," said the head of the Kharkiv regional state administration, Oleg Sinegubov.
Eight Kharkiv residents, including two children, were treated for acute stress responses. No one was injured.
"As a result of one of the strikes, the service station caught fire: garages and cars were in flames. A two-story building nearby was partially destroyed. It was not a residential building, but there were dormitories inside for people who had left the Russian-occupied territories. Rescuers are now clearing the rubble," said Dmytro Chubenko, a spokesman for the Kharkiv regional prosecutor's office.
Photographer Yakiv Lyashenko was working at the scene. He noticed an elderly couple near a private house.
"The man uses a walker to get around. When a fire broke out in their house, they barely escaped," said Yakiv Lyashenko. "The woman remembered that a few days before the incident, someone had taken pictures of the petrol station with his mobile phone, and she even called the police. However, this can only be an assumption on her part."
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On 2 November, photographer George Ivanchenko returned to Kharkiv from a long business trip.
"There is a strange echoing sound on my street, and all the passing motorcycles always remind me of drones. But that night I didn't pay any attention to these sounds. I looked out of the window and saw a red glow. A hit. A fire. I grabbed my camera and left," says George Ivanchenko.
According to the photographer, the firefighters, the police, and even the residents of the houses near the explosion were all calm.
"The services are doing their work steadily, without fear or stress. I filmed it. We can go home to bed now that other journalists have arrived," said Ivanchenko.
Yakiv Lyashenko — Ukrainian photographer from Kharkov. He began his professional career in 2012. After the beginning of a full-scale invasion, he worked as a fixer for famous photographers and in parallel documented the events of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Currently a freelance photojournalist at EPA Agency.
Photographer's social networks: Instagram, Facebook.
George Ivanchenko— Ukrainian photographer, who since February 2022 works as a freelance reporter in the field of documentary and journalistic photography. From the first months of the invasion, he began filming for the Associated Press and the European Pressphoto Agency. Starting from Borodyanshchyna, where Georgy was born, continuing his journey through the front line: Mykolaiv, Kharkiv region, Kherson region, now his attention was concentrated on Donetsk region. The turning point in his photography was that he lived in Bakhmut for almost a month. Throughout December and January, he documented the lives of the townspeople, carrying a backpack and sleeping bag, sharing life with locals in basements, volunteers, medics, military, and firemen. In April, while working on material about Chasiv Yar in Donbas, his car was shot and destroyed by a Russian shell. Now the author continues his reflection on the numerous situations that have happened on his way and is working on the creation of his first project “Way of War” (working title).
Photographer's social networks: Instagram, Facebook
The material was worked on:
Researcher of the topic, author of the text: Vira Labych
Bildeditor: Vyacheslav Ratynskyi
Literary Editor: Julia Futei
Site Manager: Vladislav Kuhar
The material was created with the support of The Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation.
On the night of 3 November, the Russians attacked Ukraine with forty Shahid drones and one X-59 guided missile from the airspace of the temporarily occupied Kherson region. 24 drones and one missile were shot down. The Ukrainian Air Force reported.
Russian forces carried out 10 drone strikes in Kharkiv and the surrounding area. At around 00:45 there was a series of strikes on Kharkiv. Mayor Igor Terekhov later said Russia had hit civilian objects. Law enforcement officials recorded damage to private homes, an educational institution, and cars in the Osnovianskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts of the city.
"Two garages, 4 cars, and an outbuilding were damaged. One educational institution was partially destroyed. A petrol station building, an abandoned sewing shop, and a residential building were also damaged. There were fires," said the head of the Kharkiv regional state administration, Oleg Sinegubov.
Eight Kharkiv residents, including two children, were treated for acute stress responses. No one was injured.
"As a result of one of the strikes, the service station caught fire: garages and cars were in flames. A two-story building nearby was partially destroyed. It was not a residential building, but there were dormitories inside for people who had left the Russian-occupied territories. Rescuers are now clearing the rubble," said Dmytro Chubenko, a spokesman for the Kharkiv regional prosecutor's office.
Photographer Yakiv Lyashenko was working at the scene. He noticed an elderly couple near a private house.
"The man uses a walker to get around. When a fire broke out in their house, they barely escaped," said Yakiv Lyashenko. "The woman remembered that a few days before the incident, someone had taken pictures of the petrol station with his mobile phone, and she even called the police. However, this can only be an assumption on her part."
On 2 November, photographer George Ivanchenko returned to Kharkiv from a long business trip.
"There is a strange echoing sound on my street, and all the passing motorcycles always remind me of drones. But that night I didn't pay any attention to these sounds. I looked out of the window and saw a red glow. A hit. A fire. I grabbed my camera and left," says George Ivanchenko.
According to the photographer, the firefighters, the police, and even the residents of the houses near the explosion were all calm.
"The services are doing their work steadily, without fear or stress. I filmed it. We can go home to bed now that other journalists have arrived," said Ivanchenko.
Yakiv Lyashenko — Ukrainian photographer from Kharkov. He began his professional career in 2012. After the beginning of a full-scale invasion, he worked as a fixer for famous photographers and in parallel documented the events of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Currently a freelance photojournalist at EPA Agency.
Photographer's social networks: Instagram, Facebook.
George Ivanchenko— Ukrainian photographer, who since February 2022 works as a freelance reporter in the field of documentary and journalistic photography. From the first months of the invasion, he began filming for the Associated Press and the European Pressphoto Agency. Starting from Borodyanshchyna, where Georgy was born, continuing his journey through the front line: Mykolaiv, Kharkiv region, Kherson region, now his attention was concentrated on Donetsk region. The turning point in his photography was that he lived in Bakhmut for almost a month. Throughout December and January, he documented the lives of the townspeople, carrying a backpack and sleeping bag, sharing life with locals in basements, volunteers, medics, military, and firemen. In April, while working on material about Chasiv Yar in Donbas, his car was shot and destroyed by a Russian shell. Now the author continues his reflection on the numerous situations that have happened on his way and is working on the creation of his first project “Way of War” (working title).
Photographer's social networks: Instagram, Facebook
The material was worked on:
Researcher of the topic, author of the text: Vira Labych
Bildeditor: Vyacheslav Ratynskyi
Literary Editor: Julia Futei
Site Manager: Vladislav Kuhar
The material was created with the support of The Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation.
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