Meet Iryna Rybakova, a Ukrainian soldier who has captured iconic photos of the Russian invasion.
Iryna Rybakova’s photographs have been published throughout the world’s media, yet using her camera is only one part of her job as a junior lieutenant and press officer in the Ukrainian military.
A graveyard shattered by artillery in Bakhmut in October. Photo by Iryna Rybakova / Ukrainian Armed Forces. Even with her position in the military, she says she has to take multiple steps before she can fly her DJI Mavic Air 2. A Ukrainian soldier walks near the tail section of a Tochka U ballistic missile in the Kharkiv region in April. Photo by Iryna Rybakova / Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Rybakova says after eight years of low-level conflict in eastern Ukraine, Moscow’s full-throated invasion in February came as a shock. The photographer and soldier has felt the full fury of war. On February 26, within minutes of arriving in the newly recaptured town of Okhtyrka in the Sumy region, Rybakova says she dove onto the asphalt as a Russian aircraft dropped what she says was anThe 3-ton unguided bomb exploded with such force, she says, it was “as if it was an earthquake or some pit in hell” had opened up.
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