Baby from Kupyansk next to the Soldier of the Russian Federation: World Press Photo showed "best" shots of the year

The best photos of World Press Photo 2025 are published on the photographer platform and are accompanied by comments and justification. The organizers of the competition said that they selected from 60,000 works, which made more than 3,000 masters from 141 countries. In the nomination "Europe" Single-Photo (Single) the main attention was paid to the war in Ukraine, the article is said.

Some photos that won in this nomination-6-year-old Angelina, who was forced to leave Kupyansk, as soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were too close to this city. We see a girl who stretched on the couch. The author of the work is Florian Bahager. The jury wrote that she wanted to show children in the world of violence. "Their innocence was destroyed, but their spirit is hardy when they adapted to a new life," the description reads.

The adjacent "better" photo shows a wounded man around whom doctors crawl. The description states that it is a soldier of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, which was drafted into the army on the eve of the invasion of Ukraine. After that, he fought against the Ukrainians under Bakhmut and was injured. The moment when the killers save their lives, the photographer Nanna Heytmann recorded.

Next to both photos of the jury of the competition wrote that they see "the perfect tandem" and "a powerful couple" in them. It is indicated that two images show two sides of the war. According to the organizers of World Press Photo, posed by the photo "reveal both physical and psychological losses of war, and the combination gives a deeper and more detailed vision of conflict with far -reaching global consequences.

" In addition to the photo of Angelina and Soldier of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, there are other strange works that the media "Public" drew attention to. One of them is the work "Protests in Georgia": photographer Mikhail Tereshchenko works on Roszma TASS. Another example is a series of works by Alyona Kardash: it is Russian, who lives in Germany and photographs life in the Russian Federation, wrote "Public".

The Ukrainian Associations of Professional Photographers responded to the choice of World Press Photo 2025. On the Facebook page, the Ukrainians wrote that they were surprised by the jury by the jury that nominated the Russians, as well as Belarusians and Germans for the work on the Russian-Ukrainian war. They explained that they were propaganda representatives who want to compassion to the aggressor country.

According to the Association, the jury violated the purpose of the competition and retreated from high standards. It should be noted that on February 20, the focus wrote about the Manga Contest, in which he won the comic book about the war of the Russian Federation. The comic book was created by a group of Japanese artists. The main theme of the work is the life of a Ukrainian soldier, who protects his homeland at the front.