Main photos of Kharkiv in 2024: Russia’s war, people’s perseverance

UKRAINE, KHARKIV — Kharkiv, Kharkiv region, and the people who live here have been through a lot in 2024. Gwara’s journalists selected the main photos our journalists took documenting another year of Russia’s war and its consequences in our home—and glimpses of joy people are have been experiencing throughout it.

Fighters of Achilles drone battalion on a combat mission in Donetsk Oblast. January 2024 / Photo: Denys Klymenko, Gwara Media

Fighters of Achilles drone battalion on a daytime combat mission in Donetsk Oblast. January 2024 / Photo: Denys Klymenko, Gwara Media

Oil tanks burning after Russian Shahed attack on Kharkiv. February 2024 / Photo: Hnat Holyk, Gwara Media

Local resident gathers oil from a puddle after a Russian air attack on an oil plant in Nemyshlianskyi district of Kharkiv. The attack killed 7 people and burned down 15 houses. February 12, 2024 / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media

The soldier of the mobile firing group is tracking Russian drones in the sky above the Kharkiv region. February 28, 2024 / Denys Klymenko, Gwara Media

Woman holds her husband’s glove during a demonstration in support of relatives and loved ones of missing people and soldiers in captivity. March 16, 2024 / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media

A resident of Shevchenkivskyi district, Kharkiv, killed in a Russian airstrike. Russia hit the city with modified glide bombs for the first time. March 27, 2024 / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media

Emergency workers gather their equipment after working through the night of Russian double-taps that killed 2 of their colleagues. April 4, 2024 / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media

Construction of fortifications in Kharkiv oblast. April 2024 / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media

Soldier of 57th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during a combat mission on the Kupiansk axis. April 2024 / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media

The lower part of a broadcasting tower, the tallest building in Kharkiv & debris of its upper part. The tower was destroyed by a Russian Kh-59 cruise missile. April 22, 2024 / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media

Kharkiv residents are photographing near blooming magnolia trees in the city center. April 2024 / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media

A deminer from the HALO Trust, born in the Izium district, Kharkiv Oblast, wants to clear the region from mines and shells. May 8, 2024 / Photo: Polina Kulish, Gwara Media

Self-made artillery machine of Burevii brigade attacking the Russian positions in Kharkiv Oblast. May 10, 2024 / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media

Smoke rising to the sky after the glide bomb’s impact in Vovchansk, May 11, 2024. Vovchansk was almost completely destroyed by Russia’s new ground offensive. / Photo: Yana Sliemzina for Gwara Media

Evacuated resident of Vovchansk is provided aid. Russians shot off his finger, entering residential houses during their new ground offensive on Kharkiv that launched in May 2024 / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media

Emergency workers carry away unexploded S-300 missile Russia launched at residential buildings in Saltivskyi district of Kharkiv. May 14, 2024. / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media

Children in front of the impact site of the Russian air strike on Kharkiv. May 17, 2024 / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media

Emergency workers are putting out the fire in the Faktor-Druk printing house after a Russian missile attack destroyed most of it. May 23, 2024 / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media

Emergency workers are carrying out the body of a person killed by a Russian glide bomb attack on the Epicentr hypermarket. May 26, 2024 / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media

The cats of the rehabilitation center, evacuated from war zones in Ukraine, in the café “Little Prince” in Kharkiv, founded to improve mental health for both people and animals affected by Russian aggression. June 2024. / Photo: Viktoria Mankovska, Gwara Media

A farewell ceremony in Kharkiv for 21-year-old Daniil Moroz, who was killed during a combat mission on the Pokrovsk axis in Donetsk Oblast. Moroz was a soldier for the 46th Aeromobile Brigade, was a drone operator. July 27, 2024. / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media

Kharkiv residents are walking the city’s central street during Ukraine’s Independence Day / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media

A boy watching a residential high-rise in Kharkiv burning after a Russian glide bomb hit it on August 30, 2024 / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media

A girl hugging her parents in front of the burning high-rise in Kharkiv, after it was hit by a glide bomb. September 15, 2024 / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media

The sixth annual KharkivPride as an automobile Pride was organized in Kharkiv. 13 cars and 60 people participated, driving through one of the main avenues of the city. September 15, 2024 / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media

Valentina, a resident of Hroza, lost her entire family on October 5, 2023. She’s at her home, a year after the tragedy. October 5, 2024 / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media

Russian glide bomb hit the historic building of Derzhprom. October 2024 / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media

Carolers who sing to people of liberated Kharkiv Oblast villages on Christmas, December 2024 / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media

Cover photo: Aid 46 paramedics provide first aid to an injured man after Russian missile strike on the outskirts of Kharkiv. January 23, 2024 / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media

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