Photos taken during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine as well as earlier images from the Donbas war.
Published by GQ magazine, The Telegraph and Foreign Policy among others. Screenshots from my Channel 4 News short doc, filmed in Donbas at the end of 2022 © Jack Losh
The body of a Russian soldier lies dusted with snow on the outskirts of Kharkiv in February 2022
Fourth graders warm up for dance class at Avdiivka’s School Number 7 in eastern Ukraine, three days before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the country in February 2022
A cleaner sweeps up debris outside Mykolaiv's ruined regional government headquarters, hit by a Russian missile in March 2022
A Ukrainian soldier guards a group of prisoners-of-war in Mykolaiv ahead of a secret front-line exchange for Ukrainian POWs held by the Russians
The mother of 41-year-old soldier Serhiy Hussidi sits next to his coffin and strokes his hair while mourners look on in his home village of Kiryakivka, southern Ukraine, after shrapnel killed this former PE teacher while battling the Russian advance
A civilian man is treated for shrapnel wounds as an ambulance speeds to a hospital in Kostyantynivka - screenshot from Channel 4 News short doc
Thousands of people gather at Kharkiv’s train station to flee the besieged east in February 2022
Daria Holovantenko scrolls on her phone before going to a Sunday church service with her family in Avdiivka, eastern Ukraine, a few days before Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022
Emergency services personnel gather round the body of a civilian man who was killed by shrapnel from a Russian shell while driving through central Toretsk, a front-line town in eastern Ukraine
A Ukrainian soldier walks by the wreckage of a downed Russian helicopter near the Mykolaiv front line, southern Ukraine, in May 2022
Ukrainian soldiers guard the entrance to Kharkiv on day three of the Russian invasion in February 2022
An old lady living by the front-line in Donbas asks a fireman to treat her husband after he suffered his third stroke - screenshot from Channel 4 News short doc
A sign reading ‘Avdiivka is Ukraine’ is seen on the town’s outskirts in February 2022
In freezing temperatures, hundreds of Ukrainian refugees wait to cross into Poland at the border village of Uhryniv in March 2022
A man walks past a destroyed apartment block in the front-line town of Avdiivka in February 2022
Smokes comes off a fireman’s jacket during a mission to extinguish a blaze in a front-line Donbas village - screenshot from Channel 4 News short doc
A Ukrainian soldier ducks for cover in a makeshift trench on the outskirts of Kharkiv in February 2022
Refugees from Kharkiv arrive at a school in Vinnytsia, central Ukraine, offering shelter to those fleeing the invasion in March 2022
Soldiers run to their barracks in Kharkiv on the first day of the Russian invasion in February 2022
Fresh laundry hangs on a washing line outside one of the few inhabited apartments in a block damaged by Russian artillery strikes on the outskirts of Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine, in June 2022
A boy sits next to his mother as she waves goodbye to relatives in Toretsk, a front-line town in eastern Ukraine subjected to daily bombings by Russian forces - screenshot from Channel 4 News short doc
Displaced families are offered a hot meal in the canteen of a school in Vinnytsia, central Ukraine, providing refuge to those fleeing the invasion in March 2022
The gun turret of a destroyed tank lies on the northbound road from Kharkiv in February 2022
Sasha, a veteran fireman in his 50s, has a haircut at a fire station in Donetsk region - screenshot from Channel 4 News short doc
Surgeons gather round Tatiana after she was wounded by an exploding Russian shell in her garden and rushed to this operating theatre in Kostyantynivka. Her husband, Ivan, was killed on the spot - screenshot from Channel 4 News short doc
A Ukrainian soldier goes on patrol in the front-line village of Zaitseve in August 2015 during the Donbas war in eastern Ukraine
Civilians prepare to flee the besieged east from Kharkiv’s train station in February 2022
A helmet and other military items litter the road around a destroyed Russian armoured vehicle on the outskirts of Kharkiv in February 2022
Elizaveta Yevseyeva, 62, is pulled from the wreckage of her small cottage, destroyed by a Russian shell on the outskirts of Toretsk in eastern Ukraine - screenshot from Channel 4 News short doc
A Ukrainian soldier walks past a mural in a destroyed school in the front-line village of Pisky in 2015 during the Donbas war
A man smokes in his car as the sun rises over Kharkiv on the first of day of the Russian invasion in February 2022
Firemen eat dinner at their base in Toretsk, a front-line town in eastern Ukraine - screenshot from Channel 4 News short doc
MOLOUKOU, Central African Republic — Beneath the forest canopy, Lucien Maka steps out of a clearing and into his element.
He darts over the shaded undergrowth and finds a cluster of mushrooms, deftly wrapping them in a bundle of leaves. His friend hacks apart a thick branch and gulps down the clean water stored within. They pocket several caterpillars — a local delicacy — and point upward to a bees’ nest swollen with honey, before slashing another tree’s bark to release soaplike sap and wash their hands.
For the outsider, the rain forests of the Central African Republic are an intimidating confusion of vines and towering trunks. For Mr. Maka, whose fellow Bayaka “pygmies” have lived here in the Congo Basin for millenniums by hunting and gathering, this lush wilderness is as convenient as a downtown deli.
“The forest has always provided everything we need,” says Mr. Maka, who is in his early 30s although unsure of his exact age.
But displacement, discrimination and a drawn-out war have put his homeland under pressure. He clambers over a felled tree, emerging in an area cleared by farmers for a cassava crop. “We used to gather food here,” he says. “We must go deeper into the forest.”
FULL STORY: The New York Times (Jan 2020)
Fishermen pulling in their catch on the Mbaéré River, a tributary of the Lobaye River © Jack Losh
Photos taken during assignments backed by the Pulitzer Center in the Central African Republic, covering the civil war as well as conservation initiatives in this tumultuous country.
Other images taken in Kenya and Zambia during an assignment to record the testimonies of the last surviving African veterans who fought for Britain during World War Two, as well as across Uganda - from national parks in the verdant south-west to the Bidibidi refugee settlement in the far north, bordering South Sudan.
© Jack Losh
Women walk past a UN armoured vehicle in the rebel-held town of Kaga Bandoro, Central African Republic
A family uprooted by violence stand in their displacement camp in the rebel-held north of the Central African Republic
Two elderly Kenyan veterans who fought for Britain during World War Two pay their respects at a war cemetery in Nanyuki
Workers try to salvage a crane that fell down a steep valley at a Chinese-run construction project near Lake Albert in western Uganda
Displaced children gather in a makeshift classroom in the main camp in Kaga Bandoro
A coffee cart in Bangui, CAR
Civilians travel through CAR’s rebel-held north on the back of a pick-up truck
Elephants feed near Lake George in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park against the backdrop of the Rwenzori Mountains
Cedric - a six-year-old boy who was orphaned after his mother died from diabetes and his father was killed while hunting buffalo - dances with a community group in Kyambura, Uganda
Wildlife rangers escort two poachers arrested inside the Chinko conservation area onto a helicopter in CAR
Grace Mbithe was married to a Kenyan man who was forcibly conscripted to fight for Britain during WWII
FPRC rebels guard a checkpoint in Bangoran, northern CAR
Bush fires rage across the savannah in Chinko, CAR
A woman pushes her bike through the Bidibidi refugee settlement in Uganda close to the border with South Sudan
An armed ranger treks through Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
Mahamat Alkatim, leader of the armed rebel group, MPC, sits in his base in Kaga Bandoro, CAR
UN peacekeepers in Kaga Bandoro, CAR
An FPRC rebel washes his feet while guarding a police station in Ndele, northern CAR
Bushmeat hunters prepare to enter the forest around Moloukou, south-western CAR
A bushmeat hunter spots a hornbill in the forest around Moloukou, south-western CAR
Bushmeat hunters show their kills in the forest around Moloukou, south-western CAR
Jaston Khosa from Zambia was one of 600,000 men from African countries who fought for Britain during WWII, and was later buried on the 75th anniversary of VE Day after a life of abject poverty
Children take jerrycans of water back home in Moloukou, a village deep in the rainforests of south-western CAR
Dancers and musicians perform in Bossangoa, CAR, as part of a program to keep young people away from armed groups
Wildlife rangers guard two arrested poachers in Chinko, eastern CAR
Margret Kagole, a community leader from Uganda’s minority Bagungu group, feeds her chickens in Buliisa, western Uganda
Fishermen pull in their catch from a river in south-western CAR
Chinese and Uganda workers at a construction project near Lake Albert in western Uganda
A boxer trains at a gym in Naguru, a hillside slum in the Ugandan capital, Kampala
Rebel soldiers sit on the roof of their vehicle in the village of Bamingui in the Central African Republic
Left: Martha Kabugho with her adopted daughter, Bira, whose father was shot by rangers in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park. Right: Doreen Masika with her adopted son, Cedric, whose father was killed by a buffalo while hunting there. As hardship drives local people to poach inside the park, these two women are among a sisterhood who are raising orphans whose parents have died while hunting
A boy stands in the doorway to his family’s shop in the rebel-held town of Ndele in the Central African Republic
A tailor mends clothes on the street in Katunguru, a village inside Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park
A man walks past a pizza shack in Naguru, a hillside slum in the Ugandan capital, Kampala
A mountain gorilla from the Mukiza family rests with an infant in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
The headmaster puts on his spectacles, leaves his assault rifle in the office, and sets off to meet the latest arrivals.
Darkness has fallen on the outskirts of Vinnytsia, in central Ukraine. The school’s lights are off to conceal the building from Russian air raids, so the headmaster walks down blacked-out corridors, nodding to his fellow teachers keeping watch, and hobbles outside, an old sports injury nagging at his left knee.
A car is parked in the street with its engine running, bags of belongings stuffed in the back. The headmaster greets its passengers, a family of four who have escaped the Russian bombardment of Kharkiv. “Welcome,” he says with a smile, directing them to join hundreds of others inside who have fled the Russian advance. “You’re safe now.”
The headmaster, Valery Djakiv, gave me a similar greeting after my own tumultuous drive out of the warzone. A week before, I had woken in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s televised declaration of war – or so-called “special military operation” – following a tense night broken by insomnia and a knotted stomach. By then it was clear that Russia was about to invade. Looking out of the window of my rented, city-centre apartment I could see lights on, televisions flickering. One man stood on his balcony, smoking in the dead of night.
FULL STORY: GQ (May 2022)
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The ambulance speeds past birch trees as white as bone. Each pothole rattles the vehicle, each passing metre bringing it closer to the kill zone. Up front, strapped into body armour and a blue helmet, Igor Korzhov shouts into his radio: ‘What’s the address again?’
A sharp left. A slag heap comes into view, one of many that dot Ukraine’s embattled east. The front line is just behind it, growling with artillery fire as it has done all day, and all the months before.
‘What the fuck is the address?’ Igor shouts again.
A sharp right. Across a scrubland of leafless trees, pylons and ruined homes, the village comes into view. ‘49 Chernyshevsky Street,’ replies the dispatcher through a hiss of radio static.
The ambulance driver, Sasha Pavlenko, brakes hard outside a tin-roof cottage. ‘49 Chernyshevsky Street – where is it?’ he yells at a man carrying a bucket of coal, but he looks unsure; Sasha swears and drives on. The property soon appears, destroyed by a Russian shell: windows blown out, roof caved in, a mangled ribcage of rafters. ‘There’s a woman in there,’ says a neighbour, as Igor and his fellow first responders rush in.
FULL STORY: Telegraph Magazine (May 2022)
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New York Magazine: Life Under Siege (March 2022)
The Times: Civilians in the line of fire as rockets rain down on Kharkiv (March 2022)
Al Jazeera: Big Oil board members face hot seat over climate ‘deception’ (Feb 2022)
BBC News: No-go zones and Russian meddling in CAR (Sept 2021)
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The Washington Post: A garden in Nagorno-Karabakh where war's perils linger (Feb 2021)
The Telegraph: Bushmeat hunting in Central Africa (Feb 2021)
BBC News: A disputed election and a strange rebel alliance (Jan 2021)
Foreign Policy: Armenia Buries Its Dead but Can’t Put to Rest the Horrors of Recent War (Jan 2021)
The Independent: The double refugees - from Syria to Nagorno-Karabakh (Jan 2021)
The Telegraph: Knife-wielding Armenian refuses to leave as Azerbaijani troops move in (Nov 2020)
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Deutsche Welle: Child soldiers fight against coronavirus (August 2020)
The Guardian: ‘I saw so much killing’: how therapy is helping South Sudan's refugees (July 2020)
National Geographic: Beloved silverback gorilla killed by poachers in Uganda (June 2020)
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The Guardian: The forgotten hero of Britain's colonial army (May 2020)
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A wheatfield close to a stretch of the front line in eastern Ukraine © Jack Losh
Wildlife rangers stop for a smoke while on patrol in northern CAR © Jack Losh
Armenian soldiers descend the stairs down the 13th-century Noravank monastery © Jack Losh
Finding shade under the midday sun in a large IDP camp in Kaga Bandoro, Central African Republic © Jack Losh
A Ukrainian soldier walks by the wreckage of a downed Russian helicopter near Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine © Jack Losh
An Armenian woman prepares to be baptised at Dadivank Monastery before Azerbaijani troops arrive © Jack Losh
A soldier’s helmet lies by an unexploded mortar round on the outskirts of Fallujah, Iraq © Jack Losh
A market trader sits by his fruit stall late one evening in Mosul © Jack Losh
One of many coffee carts that dot Bangui in the Central African Republic. The front reads “La Paix” - Peace © Jack Losh
Ukrainian medic Anya Fozhikosh, 20, at her warzone wedding © Jack Losh
An elderly man in a wheelchair looks on as pro-Russia Cossack recruits await an initiation ceremony © Jack Losh
Poachers are taken onto a helicopter by rangers in CAR’s Chinko reserve © Jack Losh
Before Azerbaijani troops arrival, an ethnic Armenian soldier returns from the front to pack up his house and flee © Jack Losh
The flag of Novorossiya flies by the fields over which the MH17 passenger jet was destroyed © Jack Losh
A giant, concrete tank trap on the Donetsk-Mariupol highway © Jack Losh
A Ukrainian soldier leans on his Soviet-era car near the frontline in Starohnativka © Jack Losh
Blockade Runners Keep War-Torn Ukraine Working
AVDIIVKA, Ukraine—The bombings pause in the besieged town, and 63-year-old Valeriy Melnyk heads outside to feed the pigeons. On a ledge, he uses his right hand to slice bread with a knife, steadying the stale loaf with what remains of his left arm, its stump covered by a woolen hat. What had been underneath was blown off by an artillery shell. FULL STORY
On the Homefront, Families Mourn Ukrainian Fighters
BYSTRETS, Ukraine—In a pine-forested valley, by a spring-melt rushing river, Hanna Potiak enters the village church to mark Orthodox Easter and the resurrection, though not before stopping at the grave of her son, who died fighting on Ukraine’s southeastern front. FULL STORY
In Mariupol, Russia’s Barbarity Is Laid Bare
As shells pounded the Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Tuesday and the blasts came closer, Konstantin faced an impossible choice. Thousands of people had begun their evacuation from the besieged port city, and Konstantin’s car was packed with relatives, ready to depart under artillery fire. Yet his wife, Alyona, was adamant—she wouldn’t abandon her friend. FULL STORY
From Siege to Sanctuary
EUROPEAN ROUTE E50, Ukraine—Darkness fell over Ukraine’s endless fields as an immense line of tail lights stretched into the distance. To the east lay siege and suffering; to the west, an uncertain sanctuary. FULL STORY
Putin Resorts to Syrian Mercenaries in Ukraine. It’s Not the First Time.
In June 2021, four young Syrian men were on the final leg of their journey to the Central African Republic. As their connecting flight took off from Lomé, Togo’s capital, the contrast between the boisterous, bedraggled group and their fellow passengers—African businessmen, U.N. officials, affluent local families, charity workers—could not have been more striking. FULL STORY
In Kharkiv, a Desperate Choice: Stay or Go?
KHARKIV, Ukraine—Hundreds of people huddled on a platform at Kharkiv’s train station on Saturday, glancing up toward each approaching thud of Russian shellfire. Braced against the biting cold, suitcases stacked all around, they waited for the next westbound train to escape the invading Russian army. FULL STORY
Putin Reaches for the Syria Playbook as Ukraine Invasion Stalls
DNIPRO, Ukraine—Cluster bombs rain down on civilian areas in Kharkiv. Blasts strike a TV tower and nearby Holocaust memorial in Kyiv, a city now under threat of siege. Apartment blocks are reduced to rubble. Less than a week after it invaded Ukraine, Russia is resorting to the same brutal playbook that caused immense levels of death and destruction in its previous military campaigns, whether carpet-bombing Chechnya in the 1990s or intensifying sieges more recently in Syria. FULL STORY
The Kharkiv Resistance Has Already Begun
KHARKIV, Ukraine—Local men in jeans and civilian jackets were unloading Kalashnikov rifles and crates of ammo from a car on Thursday as the first signs of a guerrilla insurgency emerged within hours of Russia invading Ukraine. The resistance has already begun. FULL STORY
As Russia Invades, Resolve and Uncertainty in Kharkiv
KHARKIV, Ukraine—Ukrainians woke Thursday morning to the sound of explosions as Russian forces bombarded major cities and unleashed a full-scale invasion early on Feb. 24. FULL STORY
This Ukrainian City Was Already Battered. Now It’s Bracing for War.
AVDIIVKA, Ukraine—Although the day would end with advancing columns of Russian armor in eastern Ukraine, it began almost normally for the fourth graders of Avdiivka’s School Number 7. FULL STORY
Divided by Politics, Bound by Love: A Ukrainian Family Waits for War
AVDIIVKA, Ukraine—As cognac is poured and Russian guns approach, the Holovatenko family cram into their kitchen and shrug off a looming war. Artillery strikes have once again erupted around the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka and the entire front line. Yet inside their second-floor apartment, explosions are drowned out by lively debate and affectionate teasing between relatives divided by politics, bound by love, and increasingly worried by what awaits their homeland. FULL STORY
Ukraine Waits While Putin Debates
KYIV, UKRAINE—In this cradle of revolution, where mass protests toppled a pro-Russian government eight years ago, barely 100 people gathered in central Kyiv on Wednesday morning to mark a government-declared Unity Day. Handmade posters proclaiming “Unity Is Strength” and “Unity Is Peace” were passed around as the group sang the national anthem under a cold gray sky.
Coinciding with the date that U.S. intelligence had warned that Russian armed forces could invade Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s patriotism-boosting initiative seemed to spark little enthusiasm among the public. Instead, it was met by the same collective shrug that many Ukrainians have given to the heightened threat of war as Moscow encircles the country with vast quantities of armor and infantry—between 130,000 and 150,000 troops, according to recent estimates. FULL STORY
