News from yet Another War . The second spot in the forest has been set up with the latest updates from Ukraine.
Photographs and captions by Mstyslav Chernov
Exhibition curated by NUVA in the Secret Forest
Caption: Medics in the besieged Black Sea port of Mariupol were raced to save lives on Thursday as the city comes under continued Russian bombardment.Amid the flashes of constant shelling, paramedics rushed from one house to the next in the search for those needing treatment.Injured were transported to a nearby maternity ward that has been converted into a hospital.Among others rushed to hospital for surgery was a 16-year-old boy.Iliya was injured when a bomb exploded on a football pitch near a school in the city. The medics were unable to save him in time.His father wailed as he mourned his son, hunched over his lifeless body, now covered in a blood-stained white sheet.Heavy fighting continued on the outskirts of Mariupol on Thursday.The city was plunged it into darkness as the battle knocked out most phone services and raised the prospect of food and water shortages.Without phone connections, medics did not know where to take the wounded.Cutting off Ukraine’s access to the Black and Azov Seas would deal a crippling blow to Ukraine’s economy.It would also allow Russia to build a land corridor to Crimea, which it seized in 2014
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