This photos are from the project about armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine. I spent 2 months with Pro-Russians in Donbass and saw how counterrevolution was born there. After, I was from the Ukrainian army side. During the breaks, I started photographing barren landscapes of Donbas, which fascinated with its silence and static, but at the same time frightened. Areas that had recently witnessed bloody clashes, now stood abandoned in an absolute silence. It seemed I had got into a lonely ghost world, slowly I started forgetting the machine-gun fire, mortar attacks, bruised wounded bodies. But stress didn’t gone, it was a lurking silence, and you couldn’t know what she was hiding. The traces that left the war, the smell of fear, destroyed hopes, hatred, pain, again and again brought me back to reality. It is very close, and it is not going to go away ...

Ukrainian revolution brought new spirit, people became one organism that fight with a great passion and intensity for happy future. Euromaidan turned into a real performance, where started the battle of opposites. Good and evil, light and shadow, thick black smoke and whiteness of the February snow. On the revolutionary canvas creepy bloody scenes interwove with incredibly beautiful, from visually side, views. Very often I lost the line between reality and fiction. I forgot the place, time and the cause of what was happening. In one moment the battle scenes reminded terrible days of the previous wars, legends. In another - frosty, fiery battle turned Maidan Nezalezhnosty into a phantasmagoric place.