What remains of Izium
Since mid-2022, KHPG researchers have been taking photos, from the ground and from drones, of the damage and destruction wreaked by the war throughout the Kharkiv Region. The following photos illustrate what remained of Izium after it was liberated.
Izium is a town in eastern Ukraine, in the Kharkiv Region. From late February 2022 onwards, Russia’s armed forces constantly shelled it from the ground and bombed it from the air. On 1 April 2022 the town was seized by Russia and was occupied for more than five months before being liberated in September during Ukraine’s rapid counter-offensive.
By then only 10,000 people still lived in a town formerly inhabited by 45,000. As a result of the Russian invasion, says Maksim Strelnik, a town council deputy, no less than one thousand civilians died and 80% of the town infrastructure had been damaged or destroyed.
Ruins of the polyclinic
The town centre
Izium central hospital
Apartment building on Pokrovska Street
Building on Pokrovska Street
Izium town polyclinic
The Kremenetsky district
Reception area of the hospital
Izium town council
Private house on the Chernobyl Heroes Street
Apartment building on the Chernobyl Heroes Street