"Grateful to be alive" - images from near the frontline in Ukraine

The Polish Press Agency (PAP) has published original photographs of Bohorodychne, a small town in eastern Ukraine.   

Ruins of the Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary in Bohorodychne.

Photo: PAP/Vladyslav Musiienko

Bohorodychne is a small town in the Donetsk region of eastern. Before the Russian invasion there were 800 inhabitants, but now only a few of the survivors have remained living there.  

It was attacked and invaded on June 2022 but the Ukrainian Armed Forces liberated the town on September 11 in the same year. 

Bohorodychne, a village in Eastern Ukraine. Near Sviatohirsk. Totally destroyed as a result of 🇷🇺 brutal invasion. 5-7 people are living here now, out of 800. Very very sad..

The name of the village comes from Bohorodytsia, The Mother of God

📹⁦⁦@ukraine_world⁩ pic.twitter.com/5XIM36ExPy

— UkraineWorld (@ukraine_world) March 21, 2023

Survivors have told PAP reporters that although their town is almost completely destroyed, they are grateful to be alive. 

Further PAP images can be viewed here. 

Source: PAP

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