Love, loss and duty: Ukraine's photojournalists share stories of war

Moving accounts of some of the men and women behind the striking images that have encapsulated the war.

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Some of them have shared stories about their photos which have appeared in BBC coverage since February 2022.

Prior to the full-scale war, this husband and wife team worked as wedding and portrait photographers in the Black Sea port city of Odesa. They soon moved "from capturing love stories, to documenting Russian war crimes", recalls Vlada.

She knows first-hand the risks in her work. An explosion on a visit to the Donetsk region in 2023 left her with shrapnel lodged deep in her side, which doctors decided could not be removed.

This powerful shot taken by Kostiantyn Liberov in the summer of 2024 was featured in Paul Adams' report on the Ukrainian offensive over the Russian border in Kursk.

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