Compared a Ukrainian girl and Russian soldier: World Press Photo asked (photo)

" The chairman of the international jury Lucy Contractor emphasized: "These stories, meanwhile, indicate only two aspects of Russia's current war against Ukraine. " As for the award for the photographer of the Russian State Information Agency TASS Mikhail Tereshchenko, the organizers of the World Press Photo noted that they would not cancel this decision.

In particular, they plan to improve the rules of the competition and the procedures for evaluating the works of photographers working at public institutions. For this purpose, consultations with Ukrainian and Georgian photographers, as well as experts who work in repressive modes and often try to do "good work in their own difficult situations" will be conducted. "In 70 years of our existence, this topic has risen repeatedly.

From Vietnam War to Iraq and Afghanistan, from China to Iran and many other countries - how can photographers tell authentic stories, despite their restrictions on them? To say that we have the ideal answers to these questions. In particular, the organizers of the competitions expressed respect for journalists who document the war in Ukraine and protests in Georgia, and emphasized the obvious difference between a photo of a Ukrainian girl and a Russian soldier.

"There is an obvious difference between a child suffering from the consequences of war and the torment of a soldier of the occupation troops that cause these suffering," they said. After public resonance, the organizers of the competition promised to review the approach to evaluating photos in the future.

The Jury of the global platform World Press Photo 2025 chose the best footage filmed by photographers of the world in 2024, and among them were found footage from the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. In one of the nominations, a photo of Angelina's girl from Kupyansk ("On the other side of the trenches" Florian Bakhawier) and a photo of a Russian army soldier who killed Ukrainians in Bakhmut ("Underground Field Hospital" Nannnmann) was put.

6-year-old Angelina was forced to leave Kupyansk, as soldiers of the enemy army approached the city. The girl has a hard time experiencing explosions. Another photo shows the wounded occupier around which doctors stand. We will remind, on the night of April 1, the Russians did not attacked Ukraine for the first time in a lot of time by "Shahaneda": in the CPD commented a rare "lull".