The war in East Ukraine has begun. At present, shelling is the preferred military tactic, leaving more than fourteen thousand people dead and one point five million internally displaced. This war in the east is the third stage in a developing situation that began in Maidan, Kyiv in 2014.
In conflicts, the reality of previously peacefully shared geographical and cultural spaces is fractured to the tune of political agendas unconcerned with the populations involved. In the case of East Ukraine, shared Christian upbringings ironically make comment on the indiscriminate slaughter of pro Russians and Ukrainian loyalists alike. Harmony, however fragile, was sustainable between largely devout and culturally similar peoples but has been shattered by discourse claiming for historical priorities, fear of foreign influence and political sovereignty. For the people in the Eastern Ukraine, the evolving horrors of war have changed perceptions of familiar space traumatically, dividing a shared, productive region into two opposed, entrenched and bloody zones.
In conflicts, the reality of previously peacefully shared geographical and cultural spaces is fractured to the tune of political agendas unconcerned with the populations involved. In the case of East Ukraine, shared Christian upbringings ironically make comment on the indiscriminate slaughter of pro Russians and Ukrainian loyalists alike. Harmony, however fragile, was sustainable between largely devout and culturally similar peoples but has been shattered by discourse claiming for historical priorities, fear of foreign influence and political sovereignty. For the people in the Eastern Ukraine, the evolving horrors of war have changed perceptions of familiar space traumatically, dividing a shared, productive region into two opposed, entrenched and bloody zones.
For the people in the Eastern Ukraine, the present horrors of war and its evolution have fractured all perception of familiar space traumatically.
2014- Ongoing
