An adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister, Zorian Shkiriak, stated today that 1,026 people kidnapped in Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions over the last five months. 558 have been freed. 468 are still missing. In a briefing today (Tuesday) Shkiriak noted that those kidnapped included 53 journalists, 174 law enforcement officers, 115 servicemen and border guards, 40 deputies of different levels and members of political parties, 26 OSCE representatives, six prosecutors, five SBU employees, two judges, two lawyers, and a representative of the penitentiary service.
The violence continues throughout Donetsk and Luhansk. Andriy Lysenko, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian military reported pro-Russian rebels fired Grad rockets and mortars at a column of vehicles carrying refugees out of the warzone in eastern Ukraine. 15 bodies have been recovered, but more are suspected dead, including women and children. The separatists denied any involvement. How long can such 'denials' continue?? And too many governments, business leaders and observers are comfortable saying the situation is 'complicated', as if to say that maybe these pro-Russian rebels are to be believed in their denials. Yet Ukraine, a nation-state, has been invaded by Russian thugs, who, with the support of the Kremlin, are leading, funding and arming a disgruntled population in eastern Ukraine in order to wreck havoc on the country. Hundreds have died, how many more will it take before this madness ends?
See here, photographer Yevgen Nikiforov's collection of photographs (static shots) of Maidan Nezalezhnosti from the same point throughout 10 months – between October, 2013 and August, 2014. At first, it was a project for his personal archives, later it served to document the events that have become historical for the country. The last photo from the series was taken on August 17: I decided to conduct a visual analysis of sorts – what will the protest epicenter look like in time. Taking photos from a single point is a simple and convincing method to document the chronology of a location, as every next shot is already different from the previous one.
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