'People with blackened faces, traces of blood': photojournalist on Kostiantynivka
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Tue, 04 Nov 2025 12:58:00 +0200

Yan Dobronosov, a photojournalist for the Telegraph portal, told Espreso TV.“Recently, I was in Kostiantynivka, but only in the part of the city where you can still move around on foot. When you walk, you can quickly run into a building to take cover. If it weren’t real, it would seem like an asylum — you find yourself in another kind of life. Everything there is completely different. You meet people whose faces and hands are black from soot — there’s no water, and the stoves they light right on the streets make them even darker, while traces of blood can be seen on their faces,” Dobronosov said.According to the photojournalist, residents of Kostiantynivka constantly think about where to find even a single shop or where they can get help — where to find some bread.“I saw a neighborhood where everything was destroyed, where everything was completely black. The impression is quite heavy — it’s terrifying, it’s chaos, it’s horror. The Russians are destroying all the buildings, and this story is repeating itself in many cities,” Dobronosov emphasized.On November 3, 163 combat clashes occurred on the Russian-Ukrainian front with 55 assaults in the Pokrovsk direction.







