A heart-ripping display of russia’s war crimes in Ukraine was first exhibited at WEF 2022 in Davos and spread from thereon
May 22-26, 2022: Russia House, World Economic Forum 2022, Davos
July 7-15, 2022: NATO Headquarters, Brussels
15 July—9 October, 2022: PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv
September 5-15, 2022: in the European Parliament (Brussels)
September 9-10, 2022: during 17th Yalta European Strategy Annual Meeting
September 20 - October 2, 2022: during the UN General Assembly session, New York
November 15 - December 14, 2022: the exhibition “Worth fighting for”, Cologne
November 30 - December 9, 2022: in the UK Parliament
January 17-20, 2023: World Economic Forum, Davos
February 17-20, 2023: during the Munich Security Conference
February 24, 2023: during the YES Gathering ‘One Year - Stay in Fight’, Kyiv
July 10, 2023 - during the NATO summit, Vilnius
August 24, 2023 - at the Bratislavský hrad (Bratislava Castle)
September 4, 2023 - at Humboldt University, Berlin
October 25, 2023 - at The Dodd Center for Human Rights at the Connecticut University, USA
The exhibition shows photographs taken from all over Ukraine from the start of the war. Even so, it only addresses a fraction of the known crimes. While doing so, the exhibition gives back faces and names to Ukrainians that have turned into statistics. It brings back people to numbers and within the overwhelming amount of crimes, offers some of the victims a place to speak and share their story.
Mariupol, Ukraine — February 27, 2022
Mstyslav Chernov
Doctors try to resuscitate a girl fatally wounded in Russian shelling.
Mariupol, Ukraine — March 7, 2022
Mstyslav Chernov
Body covered by a tarp, lying in a street.
Ukraine —
March 9, 2022
Mstyslav Chernov
Mariupol,
Burial of the killed in a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol. Due to heavy shelling by Russian forces. This is the only way to bury the dead in the city.
The exhibition shows photographs taken from all over Ukraine from the start of the war till the beginning of May.
Even so, it only addresses a fraction of the known crimes.
A film by Oleksiy Sai
Ukraine, 2022
An 11-minute video work giving voice to an overwhelming 4683 photo’s registering war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine.
The additional horror is in the voiceover. A compilation of the phone conversations between the soldiers and their women (mothers and wives), where they confess to murder, looting, and rape. Women support them. “Rape those Ukrainian cows,” one says, “and come back home. I don’t feel sorry for them.”
We are grateful to the photographers who risk their lives documenting Russia's war crimes.
A film by Oleksiy Sai
Photographers cited in the video:
Lisa Bukreyeva, Hlib Butenko, Maxim Dondyuk, Pavel Dorogoy, Yurko Dyachyshy, Ivan Ermakov, Oleksiy Furman, Alyona Grom, Marcus Heep, George Ivanchenko, Mykhailo Karlovskiy, Oleksandr Khomenko, Serhii Korovayniy, Eduard Kryzhanivskyi, Oleksandr Kulikov, Maryan Kushnir, Dmytro Larin, Maksym Levin, Yevhen Maloletka, Volodymyr Matsokin, Valeriy Melnyk, Serhiy Mikhalchuk, Kateryna Moskaliuk, Serhii Nuzhnenko, Mikhail Palinchak, Christina Pashkina, Pavlo Petrov, Oleksandr Popenko, Diana Popovich, Vyacheslav Ratinskiy, Oleksiy Sai, Petro Sazonov, Yana Sidash, Alina Smutko, Volodymyr Subotovskyi, Eli Tyler, Mykola Tymchenko, Oleksandr Zakletskiy, Yevhenii Zavhorodnii
The exhibition gives back faces and names to Ukrainians that have turned into statistics.
It offers some victims a place to speak and share their story.
Incomplete map of Russian war crimes in Ukraine by the 9th of May, 2022 —
Officially confirmed information, according to the investigation of Ukraine’s law enforcement agencies and Amnesty International.
Real numbers are much higher and growing every day.
“Everything started to suddenly crumble and fall. The children screamed. For several seconds, it was like there was silence and time stood still. Then I dragged my children out from under the rubble. Blood was flowing down me, and I dragged my children out.”
— Yulia Matvienko, 33, mother-of-three, Chernihiv
“Once the tanks had passed by, I jumped over the fence to the neighbor’s house. I wanted to check if they’re alive. I looked over the fence and saw my mother lying on her back on one side of the road, and my father was face down on the other side of the street. I saw large holes in his coat. The next day I went to them. My father had six large holes in his back, my mother had a smaller hole in her chest.”
— Kateryna Tkachova, 18, Bohdanivka, Kyiv region
Discussion:
Protecting human rights during the war
— Liudmyla Denisova, Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights
— Kenneth Roth, Executive director of Human Rights Watch
Moderator:
— John Herbst, Director, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council
The Russian War Crimes House takes place inside the former Russia House
— a symbolic gesture that brings a reality about Russia to the attention of the world.
Kharkiv, Ukraine - March 25, 2022
Philip Cheung
Severed hand lying on the ground after a Russian shelling hit a post office where civilians were waiting in line to get humanitarian aid. Six people were killed in the attack and 15 more injured.