Main Photos of 2023 From Kharkiv Region Amidst Full-Scale Russian-Ukrainian War — Editor’s Choice

We’ve gathered 29 main photos of the Kharkiv and Kharkiv region that Gwara Media’s photographers and reporters made in 2023. In the pictures: people who survived occupation, houses destroyed by Russian missile strikes, funerals and farewells to those who died protecting Ukraine, and daily life during wartime.

Shelling of the warehouse with pyrotechnics with BM-30 Smerch rocket launchers, January 2023 / Serhii Prokopenko for Gwara Media

The consequences of S-300 missile hitting a residential apartment on Myronosytska St., February 2023 / Oleksandr Mahula for Gwara Media

Oleksandr Duvanskyi, a writer from Izium that survived Russian occupation, shows his war diary, February 2023 / Oleksii Yeroshenko for Gwara Media

The debris that Russian shelling left is being sorted through on the North Saltivka in Kharkiv, February 2023 / Oleksandr Mahula for Gwara Media

People keep living in underground stations of the Kharkiv metro. March 2023 / Oleksandr Mahula for Gwara Media

The Ruski Tyshky resident near the house that was destroyed by a Russian missile. March 2023 / Oleksiy Yeroshenko for Gwara Media

Kharkiv bade farewell to a soldier, Anton Debrilov. April 2023 / Oleksandr Mahula for Gwara Media

Kupiansk local history museum that was destroyed by the Russian shelling. Two women died there. April 2023 / Oleksandr Mahula for Gwara Media

Missile attack on the residential quarter in Pervomaiskyi in Kharkiv Oblast during a farewell ceremony in honor of Oleh Fadieienko, call sign Malysh, who died fighting for Bahmut. July 2023 / Oleksandr Mahula for Gwara Media

Izium says goodbye to a family that died in a Russian airstrike on a residential apartment. July 2023 / Denys Glushko for Gwara Media

The consequences of the nighttime Shahed attack on Kharkiv are being sorted through. August 2023 / Ivan Samoilov for Gwara Media

Activists in Kharkiv are protesting construction in Sarzhyn Yar [a natural ravine in one of the city’s central districts — ed.] They organized a picnic to collect signatures against the construction project. August 2023 / Photo: Ivan Samoilov for Gwara Media

Brothers-in-arms came to pay respects to Lieutenant Stanislav Partal, who was awarded the Hero of Ukraine decoration posthumously. August 2023 / Ivan Samoilov for Gwara Media

A memorial plaque in honor of the pilot, Taras Redkin, was opened in Kharkiv. August 2023 / Ivan Samoilov for Gwara Media

A performance in the form of a lesbian wedding was organized within KharkivPride 2023. August 2023 / Ivan Samoilov for Gwara Media

People bade farewell to Kharkiv pilot Andriy Pilshchykov, a call sign “Juice.” August 2023 / Denys Glushko for Gwara Media

A director of 20 Days in Mariupol documentary, Mstyslav Chernov, on his movie’s premier in Kharkiv. August 2023 / Ivan Samoilov for Gwara Media

In Kharkiv, the first lessons were held in an underground school. September 2023 / Ivan Samoilov for Gwara Media

In Kharkiv, people came to say goodbye to a musician, actor, and volunteer, Mykhailo Kabanov. September 2023 / Ivan Samoilov for Gwara Media

A funeral for volunteers of a civil organization, “Piatykhatky BAM,” who died in a Russian attack on Kupiansk on September 19. September 2023 / Oleksiy Yeroshenko for Gwara Media

In Kharkiv, Russian attacks hit residential buildings. The Iskander missile hitting the city’s Osnovianskyi district injured 15 people. Eight people were hospitalized, an 11 months-old child among them. A ten-year-old child was killed. October 2023 / Photo: Polina Kulish for Gwara Media

The Hroza village buries those who died in a Russian missile attack. The missile killed 59 people, October 2023 / Ivan Samoilov for Gwara Media

Russia hit Nova Poshta post service terminal in Kharkiv Oblast with a missile strike, killing six and injuring 14, October 2023 / Ivan Samoilov for Gwara Media

Preparation for demolition of part of the residential building on Natalia Uzhviy, 82 St. October 2023 / Ivan Samoilov for Gwara Media

A protest against government corruption and inefficient spending organized in Kharkiv, November 2023 / Hnat Holyk for Gwara Media

Sappers are demining Kharkiv region territories: those that have been de-occupied and those close to the frontline, November 2023 / Photo: Ivan Samoilov for Gwara Media

At the Honcharenko Center, Fuminori Tsuchiko, a volunteer from Japan, organized a celebration for Kharkiv children. December 2023 / Photo: Ivan Samoilov for Gwara Media

Wives and close ones of Ukrainian soldiers who were captured in Mariupol organized a demonstration on Constitution Square in Kharkiv, December 2023 / Ivan Samoilov for Gwara Media

Carolers went through the city’s central streets on Christmas Eve, asking the passersby to join in. They were celebrating the holiday and collecting funds for the 53 Mechanized Brigade of the AFU, December 2023 / Photo: Ivan Samoilov for Gwara Media

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