The Collection of War Photos
Viacheslav Ratynskyi, 34, is a Ukrainian photo reporter and documentary photographer. Born in Zhytomyr, he has been living and working in Kyiv for the last ten years and graduated from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv with a major in journalism. Viacheslav Ratynskyi created the documentary photo story “100 Moments of the Revolution of Dignity” about the events on Euromaidan in Kyiv in 2014.
The photographer has been covering the Russian war against Ukraine since the first hours of the full-scale invasion. Viacheslav has been working as a photojournalist for Reuters and contributing photos for many international and Ukrainian media (Time, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, etc.).
In his work, Ratynskyi explores the impact of war on society’s social and political issues and the lives and problems of Ukrainian youth and children.
A military serviceman stands next to a Mi-8 combat helicopter before taking off on a mission in the Dnipropetrovsk region. June 2023.
Servicemen of the 35th Marine Brigade train in a forest near the front line in the Donetsk region. August 2022.
A view of the Kyiv TV Tower through smoke from burning buildings after a Russian missile strike in Kyiv. January 2, 2024.
A car moves along Freedom Square during a blackout in Kharkiv. October 2022.
People hide in the subway, like in a shelter, during the air alert in Kyiv. February 2023.
Snipers of the 17th Tank Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine test their rifles before going on a mission. December 2023.
A little boy looks at the body of a fallen soldier Yevhen Tyshchenko. Kyiv. June 14, 2022.
The exhumation of bodies from the mass burial place was completed in the city of Izyum of the Kharkiv region, which was liberated from the Russian occupation. A total of 436 bodies were exhumed. Most of them have signs of violent death. Izium, Kharkiv region. September, 2022.