Lychychansk Oil Refinery - Daphne Wesdorp
Dima, a civilian from Kharkiv, drives past the Lysychansk oil refinery that was for the very first time hit by Russian artillery. “Firemen attempted to blus the fire—but without any luck. Not that it mattered: the oil refinery was targeted weekly when the Russian forces advanced further to the city,” says the photographer Daphne Wesdorp. “By mid-June, Ukrainian troops pulled back from the city shortly after Severodonetsk was taken. ‘We didn’t want Lysychansk to turn into a new Mariupol’, one soldier told me.”