23-07-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Putin's Blitz Has United Ukraine
Kyiv, Ukraine
Photojournalist Anton Shtuka has documented the aftermath of Russian attacks across Ukraine. Last month a missile hit close to home—down the street from his parents' house. When crowds gathered, 'it was so weird to see all the people from childhood around that collapsed building—my mom, the mother of my childhood friend,' he recalls. On Instagram he mused that 'today came the realization that the front line has moved much closer. . . . Kyiv has turned into Kharkiv,' the hard-hit city just south of Russia.