Kyiv

After more than three years away from Ukraine, it was finally time for me to come back and finally see what Kyiv is like in the middle of the winter. The following pictures have been taken over the course of six weeks.

Sunset on Bulvarno-Kudriavska Street

Parked car in a snowy alleyway

A man walking through Pavlivsʹkyy Sadok park

St. Michael's Monastery

Friendship of Nations Arch

View on Podil from the Friendship of Nations Arch

Podil

Recital at the National Philharmonic of Ukraine

People attending at the philharmonic recital

Statue at Taras Shevchenko Park

Chekhovs'kyi street

Observatornyi street

Crows flying overhead Assumption Cathedral

A family taking pictures from a viewpoint above the Dnieper

Landscape Alley

A man taking pictures from St. Andrew's Church

Podil and Rybalskyi Peninsula

A woman and young child in Volodymyrska Hill park

Statue of Cossacks under the Friendship of Nations Arch

View on the Dnieper from Parkova Doroha

Celebrations on Maidan Square

Pictures of the celebrations that took place last Sunday night in the city center of Kyiv

Teens playing in hay as two volunteers walk by on the middle of Maidan Square 

Cossacks  musician making people dance on Maidan

The struggles of Maidan

A man making phone call from behind the barricades as his comrade put Molotov cocktail on the ground  

Young man recovering a Ukrainian flag from the belonging that have been saved from the destroyed tents as the smoke rise from a burning barricade

Men tearing out the street pavement which as be put back on over the last few weeks

Soldiers from the National Guard being pushed back from Maidan

Man checking on a woman that decided to lie on the ground between the protesters and the National Guard after she the first the first that they were all brothers coming from Maidan in order to prevent an escalation of the riot  

National Guard pulling back out of Maidan after singing along with the protesters  "Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava!"

A solider from Kyiv 1 standing next to a civilian outside of Maidan Square 

Maidan square during the night