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Bombed-out buildings: Photoshoot of Ukraine students go viral

​Graduation shots by students
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​Graduation shots by students
They wanted the world to see their pain. A group of high school graduates in war-torn Ukraine have posted graduation shots taken at different bombed-out sites.
​Damaged buildings, destroyed vehicles
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​Damaged buildings, destroyed vehicles
The students used damaged buildings and destroyed vehicles as surreal backdrops as they posed stoically for the camera in their graduation shots.
​From schools in Chernihiv
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​From schools in Chernihiv
The group of roughly 40 students are from schools in Chernihiv in northern Ukraine. Photographer Stanislav Senyk told Reuters he wanted to document it after witnessing the horrors of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
​The pain and defiance
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​The pain and defiance
The pictures went viral after they were posted to Twitter. Many saw pain. Others saw defiance. And they all saw what the human tragedy in Ukraine means to the young people there.
​Grim graduation album
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​Grim graduation album
These pictures will be compiled into a graduation album, reports said. So that years later the world would still remember what the young people of Ukraine lost in 2022.
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