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Dmytro

Dmytro is a military drone operator. I met him during my first stay in Donbas, in the town of Dobropila. This town is now subject to daily bombings. We see Dmytro posing in front of his van, the one he uses daily during certain missions, on the side of the Sharpnel bombs he survived. Dmytro is married. He doesn't yet have a driver's license because the war took away the time to get one, which doesn't stop him from driving every day; war has its necessities...

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 08.2024
Date Uploaded: 10.2025
Photo Location: Dobropila, Ukraine
Camera: GFX100S
Copyright: © yves lacroix