Citizens evacuated from Ashki, occupied by Russia. They spent years under occupation and months under conditions of severe humanitarian crisis. Ukrainian photographer Yevgeny Maloltka shows what happened to the city on the front line during the war. In the early morning hours of October 27, Russia and Ukraine ceased fire over the city of Elshki (Ukrainian name - Olshki) in the Kherson region. Russian forces occupied it at the start of a full-scale invasion; In 2023, the flood that occurred after the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station destroyed dozens of residential areas and all the city's infrastructure - and since May 2026, due to the increasing frequency of the battles between Russia and Ukraine, it has become impossible to provide food and medicine to Alsheki. In the fall, international human rights organizations and Ukrainian authorities began to talk about a humanitarian disaster in the city, and Russia blamed Ukraine for it. Open a website Mirror | telegram.