Emergency Reporting Commission: Ukraine Dispatch #3 - Obscura DAO

Life Underground

in the words of Lorenzo Meloni

Kyiv now experiences two parallel and opposite dimensions. On the surface, young men and women prepare for battle, while in the basement of buildings and metro tunnels, families seek shelter. From hour to hour the mood changes, there are moments when everything seems to be going well and then suddenly for reasons beyond logic the tension rises. The tanks are still at the gates of the city. Yesterday I went to take pictures on the front line, it seemed relatively calm, but it seems that tomorrow I won't be able to return to the same place because the Russian Army have advanced.

UKRAINE. Kyiv. 3 March 2022.

UKRAINE. Kyiv. 3 March 2022. Mother and daughter sleep in a bomb shelter under a school on the outskirts of Kyiv. Photo by Lorenzo Meloni

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UKRAINE. Kyiv. 4 March 2022.

UKRAINE. Kyiv. 4 March 2022. A metro car used as a dormitory to shelter from the artillery strikes that hit the city' especially at night. Photo by Lorenzo Meloni

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UKRAINE. Kyiv. 4 March 2022. A lady poses for a portrait inside a metro car parked in a tunnel, where she and her family sleep to shelter from the Russian army's mortar fire on the city. Photo by Lorenzo Meloni

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UKRAINE. Kyiv. 4 March 2022. Entire families find shelter from Russian artillery fire inside the tunnel of a metro station. Photo by Lorenzo Meloni

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UKRAINE. Kyiv. 4 March 2022. Oksana, a young girl, has moved to live in this metro carriage parked underground to protect herself from the artillery fire of the Russian army. Photo by Lorenzo Meloni

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