Russian photojournalists showed Londoners the horrors of war in Ukraine

Several dozen photos Russian photojournalists told Londoners about the horrors of war and human rights violations in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, the Exhibition " Humanitarian catastrophe in Ukraine " was opened on the first day of the week in one of the galleries in the centre of the British capital.

The theme of the exhibition were not combat operations and not their direct participants, and the consequences of war and the hardships endured by civilians in the region. Heroes photos were made by ordinary citizens: the villagers whose homes and farms were killed by shelling, urban residents, lost their apartments because of the air raids, as well as women and children fleeing from shells.

served on the exhibition of 80 photographs are documentary evidence of the largest since the Second world war destroyed homes, schools and kindergartens, lack of medicines, food and necessities and flows of immigrants, seeking salvation in the Russian Federation and neighbouring areas of the country.

The exhibition consists of several blocks: " Without the right to childhood ", " No rights for the future, " " right to life ", " Exodus ". The organizers of the exhibition aim to emphasize the horror of personal human tragedy of the victims of the events in Eastern regions of Ukraine and emphasize that in the heart of Europe after more than half a century again explode bombs whistling shells and there are numerous killings of civilians.

The authors of images are, for example, photojournalists Agency " Russia today ", and among them, went missing on August 5, in the region of Donetsk. Visitors and correspondents were interested in the fate of Andrew, promising to support deployed with the social media campaign #freeAndrew. Organized an exhibition of the London charitable Foundation Kultura Foundation.

the Fund Manager Laszlo Puskas told that the main purpose of the event is to overcome the informational blockade and attracting the attention of the European Citizens to an unprecedented atrocity crimes in the South-East of Ukraine, the violation of basic human rights enshrined in numerous international instruments and, most importantly, the universal Declaration of human rights.

" The initiators of the exhibition were themselves British. Most want to know what is happening in Ukraine. They read here that the Russian Federation occupied Ukraine, but do not understand, because this is a civil war. So, the purpose of this exhibition, the 1st and foremost, educational, " said Fins news Puskas.

the organizers urged the international community to immediately stop what is happening with the tacit consent of the United States and some European countries killing of civilians carried out by Ukrainian troops and militants of machardie with special cruelty and the use of prohibited weapons of mass destruction. The exhibition will continue until August 26.


numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. They were the response of local citizens to violent change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law granting Russian the status of regional language. The center of the Pro-Russian opposition-minded people with power in Kiev became the Donbass. About how developed the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.


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