‘There are so many images I’d like to forget’: Julia Kochetova’s astonishing photographs of war in Ukraine

From the frontline to underground shelters to children’s funerals, Kochetova has captured the war in Ukraine with power and humanity for the Guardian. ‘I have the same scars as the people I photograph,’ she says ahead of a major show Julia Kochetova is unlike most of the people who cover Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for the Guardian. The photographer lives in Kyiv; she is Ukrainian. It is her country that is being invaded, her friends who are being killed. The war that began in 2014 and bruta...

By Charlotte Higgins