What is happening to the city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine may look like just another blood bath in a long war — an obscure crossroads, now largely in ruins, being captured bit by bit by Russian forces.
It is a scenario I have seen play out over and over as I have photographed the war since the Kremlin’s invasion in 2022. I have witnessed the levels of attacks rise and swaths of the country fall into Russia’s hands. Nearly every thriving city, town and village I’ve visited near the front lines has been obliterated, become unreachable, or been occupied by Moscow’s forces.
Pokrovsk is now one of them. But like Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Vuhledar before it, Pokrovsk has its own story to tell, one that I have documented over several trips to the city and the area around it between the summer of 2023 and February of this year.
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