Mick Hartley

Photographer Yves Lacroix captures the ruins of a bombed-out Ukraine, with light showing through the cracks:

These buildings, like the Ukrainian people, these women and men, are damaged, broken, but remain standing, cracked but not collapsed. So it is not about celebrating destruction here, but rather renewal and better days ahead. Life stronger than destruction. Hope stronger than despair. Light stronger than darkness.

_{Offices and factory building. Hostomel. Ukraine}

_{Gas station. Chernihiv region. Ukraine}

_{Private house. Irpin. Ukraine}

_{Security booth. Hostomel. Ukraine}

_{Parking booth. Kyiv region. Ukraine}

_{Private house. Kyiv region. Ukraine}

_{Chernihiv School No. 21 was bombed by Russian forces on March 3 in Chernihiv, Ukraine}

_{March 9, 2022. Izium. Ukraine. As a result of an airstrike by russian aviation a 5 story civilian building was destroyed. About 50 people died under the rubble, including children, ederly and families.}

_{The 110-year-old Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the village of Novoekonomichne, Donetsk region}

_{[All photos © Yves Lacroix]}