The Ukrainian military has lost their vision, they grow children and learn to lead a full life. In the occupied Tokmak, the five -story building is destroyed by the shelling of the Armed Forces

The eight hundredth day of the war. Photos

Every day since the beginning of a full -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Medusa editors choose the main military pictures taken the day before. These photos contain scenes of cruelty, violence and death, but most of them are not placed under a special dick, which usually the editors hide similar images. In a series of these materials, we try to document the war as it is.

The life of the Ukrainian military who lost their vision

In February, Ukraine launched a program for free training of soldiers and civilians who lost their vision in the war. According to the Verkhovna Rada website , the program gives household and working skills, and also includes psychological assistance. One of the initiators of the project, the Verkhovna Rada deputy Anna Purtova, told The Washington Post that over the past two years of vision, at least a thousand Armed Forces of the Armed Forces have lost. As the publication clarifies, Ukrainian cities are not yet adapted for blind people: traffic lights will not sign up for pedestrians, cars are often park on sidewalks, and guide dogs are rare.

Oksana Parafeniuk / The Washington Post / Getty images Denis Abdulin lost his eyesight after the fragment pierced his skull through his left ear and went through his right eye. This happened in April in Severodonetsk. Now Abdulin is 35 years old, he lives in the White Church near Kiev and together with his wife Olesya brings up two sons, Vadim and David

Oksana Parafeniuk / The Washington Post / Getty Images 47-year-old Ruslan Kozachok in the Kiev office of Port is the Anna Purtova project, which helps the war participants and their families. The goat became a volunteer in the first days of a full -scale invasion. He lost his eyesight after the fragment pierced his skull into the hourly tier. 10 months ago, his daughter Isabella was born with his wife Julia. Ruslan never saw her

Oksana Parafeniuk / The Washington Post / Getty images Denis Abdulin can no longer work in a warehouse, as before. Last year, the Port helped him to learn the masseur. Now he accepts customers in a rented room and hopes to someday open his studio

Oksana Parafeniuk / The Washington Post / Getty images, the former tattoo master Ruslan Kozachka lost his profession along with vision. He still does not know who he will work now - but for the first time in his life he took up a climbing. The owner of the climbing is bringing it to the club and home, and in training tells the direction

APU fighters with drone

The 10th Separate Mining and School Brigade of the Edelweiss Armed Forces since 2016 has participated in the ATO. At the beginning of a full -scale invasion, the brigade freed the Kyiv region, and since May 2022 he is fighting in the Donetsk region. Now there is the most problematic for the Armed Forces of the Front. Russian troops are preparing for the assault on the city of Yar’s clock near Bakhmut - this is a supporting point on the hill, which, according to the deputy head of Ukrainian intelligence Vadim Skibitsky, will open the Russian army to the last non -accumulated large cities of the Donetsk region.

Oleksandr Ratushniak / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Advanced in the Donetsk region. A soldier of the 10th separate mining and gear brigade of the Edelweiss Armed Forces is preparing to launch the legged "LELEKA-100"

Oleksandr Ratushniak / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta The Edelweis Brigade, the antenna before launching the legged Leleka-100

Oleksandr Ratushniak / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Launching a drone

The shelling of the occupied Tokmak

The city of Tokmak in the Zaporizhzhya region of Ukraine has been occupied by Russia since March 2022. A little more than 30 thousand people lived in a full -scale war in Tokmak. How many people remain there today is unknown. On May 7, 2022, Ukrinform announced the death of Igor Kotelevsky, mayor of Tokmak. He held this position since 2009, and in the spring of 2022 he refused to cooperate with the Russian military and resigned his authority, but remained in the city. According to the unofficial information of Ukrinform, Kothelevsky could die as a result of suicide. The “authorities” of the Zaporizhzhya region, appointed by Russia periodically report on the shelling of Tokmak from the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the dead. On May 3, the “governor” of the region Yevgeny Balitsky said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine were fired by a five -story building.

Alexander Lieutenko / TacC / Profimedia according to Evgeny Balitsky, as a result of the blow, four people suffered, two in critical condition

300-meter St. George ribbon on Poklonnaya Gora

On May 3, the action “Symbols of the Great Victory” was held in the Moscow Park Poklonnaya Gora. Its participants launched a 300-meter St. George ribbon and a 20-meter copy of the banner, which was hoisted over the Reichstag in May 1945. The action was organized by pro -government youth movements - “Young Guard of United Russia”, “Volunteer company” and “Unarmia”. The Chairman of the “Young Guard” Anton Demidov told the NTV television channel that the participants in the movement stretched the same tape in the annexed territories of Ukraine-in Mariupol, Melitopol and on the Saur-Mogil mound in the Donetsk region, where the Soviet memorial complex, restored by the Russian Military Historical Society and the Ministry of Defense after joining the self-proclaimed DPR. To Russia.

Alexander Miridonov / Kommersant / Sipa USA / Vida Press, the chairman of the “Young Guard” Anton Demidov told the NTV television channel that the participants in the movement stretched the same tape in the annexed territories of Ukraine-in Mariupol, Melitopol and on the Saur-Mogil mound in the Donetsk region

Yuri Kochetkov / EPA / Scanpix / Leta participated in the ceremony more than 2.5 thousand people, among them military personnel, cadets, unarmers and volunteers

The main photos of the previous one are seven hundred ninety -ninth - day of the war can be seen at this link .