Anna Ilchenko News Today

Svitlana Oslavska and Anna Ilchenko embarked on a mission in 2020 to document Ukraine’s villages before they were lost to time and war. Traversing across Ukraine’s vast landscape, the sisters started speaking to people from villages about topics as diverse as the best construction method of a house to their contemplations on life and death. Ukraine’s rural population is shrinking yearly, with many people moving to larger cities or abroad for better prospects.

On 6 July 2023, between two and three in the morning, Russia carried out its largest strike on Lviv's civilian infrastructure facilities since the full-scale war started. One missile hit a residential building on Stryiska Street.