Photos taken during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 as well as earlier images from the Donbas war.
Published by Foreign Policy, GQ magazine and The Telegraph among others. Screenshots from my Channel 4 News short doc, filmed in Donbas at the end of 2022 © Jack Losh
The body of a Russian soldier lies dusted with snow on the outskirts of Kharkiv in February 2022
Fourth graders warm up for dance class at Avdiivka’s School Number 7 in eastern Ukraine, three days before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the country in February 2022
A cleaner sweeps up debris outside Mykolaiv's ruined regional government headquarters, hit by a Russian missile in March 2022
A Ukrainian soldier guards a group of prisoners-of-war in Mykolaiv ahead of a secret front-line exchange for Ukrainian POWs held by the Russians
The mother of 41-year-old soldier Serhiy Hussidi sits next to his coffin and strokes his hair while mourners look on in his home village of Kiryakivka, southern Ukraine, after shrapnel killed this former PE teacher while battling the Russian advance
A civilian man is treated for shrapnel wounds as an ambulance speeds to a hospital in Kostyantynivka - screenshot from Channel 4 News short doc
Thousands of people gather at Kharkiv’s train station to flee the besieged east in February 2022
Daria Holovantenko scrolls on her phone before going to a Sunday church service with her family in Avdiivka, eastern Ukraine, a few days before Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022
Emergency services personnel gather round the body of a civilian man who was killed by shrapnel from a Russian shell while driving through central Toretsk, a front-line town in eastern Ukraine
A Ukrainian soldier walks by the wreckage of a downed Russian helicopter near the Mykolaiv front line, southern Ukraine, in May 2022
Ukrainian soldiers guard the entrance to Kharkiv on day three of the Russian invasion in February 2022
An old lady living by the front-line in Donbas asks a fireman to treat her husband after he suffered his third stroke - screenshot from Channel 4 News short doc
A sign reading ‘Avdiivka is Ukraine’ is seen on the town’s outskirts in February 2022
In freezing temperatures, hundreds of Ukrainian refugees wait to cross into Poland at the border village of Uhryniv in March 2022
A man walks past a destroyed apartment block in the front-line town of Avdiivka in February 2022
Smokes comes off a fireman’s jacket during a mission to extinguish a blaze in a front-line Donbas village - screenshot from Channel 4 News short doc
A Ukrainian soldier ducks for cover in a makeshift trench on the outskirts of Kharkiv in February 2022
Refugees from Kharkiv arrive at a school in Vinnytsia, central Ukraine, offering shelter to those fleeing the invasion in March 2022
Soldiers run to their barracks in Kharkiv on the first day of the Russian invasion in February 2022
Fresh laundry hangs on a washing line outside one of the few inhabited apartments in a block damaged by Russian artillery strikes on the outskirts of Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine, in June 2022
A boy sits next to his mother as she waves goodbye to relatives in Toretsk, a front-line town in eastern Ukraine subjected to daily bombings by Russian forces - screenshot from Channel 4 News short doc
Displaced families are offered a hot meal in the canteen of a school in Vinnytsia, central Ukraine, providing refuge to those fleeing the invasion in March 2022
The gun turret of a destroyed tank lies on the northbound road from Kharkiv in February 2022
Sasha, a veteran fireman in his 50s, has a haircut at a fire station in Donetsk region - screenshot from Channel 4 News short doc
Surgeons gather round Tatiana after she was wounded by an exploding Russian shell in her garden and rushed to this operating theatre in Kostyantynivka. Her husband, Ivan, was killed on the spot - screenshot from Channel 4 News short doc
A Ukrainian soldier goes on patrol in the front-line village of Zaitseve in August 2015 during the Donbas war in eastern Ukraine
Civilians prepare to flee the besieged east from Kharkiv’s train station in February 2022
A helmet and other military items litter the road around a destroyed Russian armoured vehicle on the outskirts of Kharkiv in February 2022
Elizaveta Yevseyeva, 62, is pulled from the wreckage of her small cottage, destroyed by a Russian shell on the outskirts of Toretsk in eastern Ukraine - screenshot from Channel 4 News short doc
A Ukrainian soldier walks past a mural in a destroyed school in the front-line village of Pisky in 2015 during the Donbas war
A man smokes in his car as the sun rises over Kharkiv on the first of day of the Russian invasion in February 2022
Firemen eat dinner at their base in Toretsk, a front-line town in eastern Ukraine - screenshot from Channel 4 News short doc
During its brutal rule, ISIS laid hundreds of thousands of explosive devices across Iraq, making it one the most heavily mined countries in the world. Repeated flare-ups of conflict over the past few decades have left other explosives strewn across swathes of the country.
The problem with using explosive weapons in populated areas is that not only can they kill, injure, traumatize and displace the population, their temperamental design and inaccurate use mean that many fail to explode upon impact. That legacy can threaten civilians years after a conflict has ended, setting in motion a vicious cycle.
This reporting and photography project went into the heart of the ruined caliphate to explore this ongoing crisis and showcase the people trying to rebuild their shattered country.
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IEDs laid by ISIS then removed from the ground are hidden under a tarpaulin in Baiji before their destruction
A young boy plays with his dog amid the rubble of Mosul’s old town. Years on since fighting here, much of the city’s ancient west bank still lies in ruins
Etab Jalawy, 33, was blinded by an exploding IED laid by ISIS in a blast that killed two of her young sons
A soldier’s helmet and unexploded mortar round are seen on the outskirts of Fallujah
A market trader sits by his fruit stall late one evening in Mosul
Baiji’s power plant, ravaged by artillery strikes, is seen through a hole blasted through a nearby wall
Bashir, a blacksmith who was detained and tortured by ISIS, welds metal in his workshop as he helps rebuild Mosul
An unexploded shell is surrounded by sandbags in a battle-scarred neighbourhood of Baiji
Smoking and drinking tea, a group of men play cards late into the evening in Mosul’s old city
Destroyed electricity pylons are seen in the arid wastelands outside of Baiji
Men gather to pray in a mosque in Tikrit, the hometown of Iraq’s former ruler, Saddam Hussein
Sandbags and warning signs surround an unexploded shell on the outskirts of Fallujah
Photos taken during assignments backed by the Pulitzer Center in the Central African Republic, covering the civil war as well as conservation initiatives in this tumultuous country.
Other images taken in Kenya and Zambia during an assignment to record the testimonies of the last surviving African veterans who fought for Britain during World War Two, as well as across Uganda - from national parks in the verdant south-west to the Bidibidi refugee settlement in the far north, bordering South Sudan.
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Women walk past a UN armoured vehicle in the rebel-held town of Kaga Bandoro, Central African Republic
A family uprooted by violence stand in their displacement camp in the rebel-held north of the Central African Republic
Two elderly Kenyan veterans who fought for Britain during World War Two pay their respects at a war cemetery in Nanyuki
Workers try to salvage a crane that fell down a steep valley at a Chinese-run construction project near Lake Albert in western Uganda
Displaced children gather in a makeshift classroom in the main camp in Kaga Bandoro
A coffee cart in Bangui, CAR
Civilians travel through CAR’s rebel-held north on the back of a pick-up truck
Elephants feed near Lake George in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park against the backdrop of the Rwenzori Mountains
Cedric - a six-year-old boy who was orphaned after his mother died from diabetes and his father was killed while hunting buffalo - dances with a community group in Kyambura, Uganda
Wildlife rangers escort two poachers arrested inside the Chinko conservation area onto a helicopter in CAR
Grace Mbithe was married to a Kenyan man who was forcibly conscripted to fight for Britain during WWII
FPRC rebels guard a checkpoint in Bangoran, northern CAR
Bush fires rage across the savannah in Chinko, CAR
A woman pushes her bike through the Bidibidi refugee settlement in Uganda close to the border with South Sudan
An armed ranger treks through Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
Mahamat Alkatim, leader of the armed rebel group, MPC, sits in his base in Kaga Bandoro, CAR
UN peacekeepers in Kaga Bandoro, CAR
An FPRC rebel washes his feet while guarding a police station in Ndele, northern CAR
Bushmeat hunters prepare to enter the forest around Moloukou, south-western CAR
A bushmeat hunter spots a hornbill in the forest around Moloukou, south-western CAR
Bushmeat hunters show their kills in the forest around Moloukou, south-western CAR
Jaston Khosa from Zambia was one of 600,000 men from African countries who fought for Britain during WWII, and was later buried on the 75th anniversary of VE Day after a life of abject poverty
Children take jerrycans of water back home in Moloukou, a village deep in the rainforests of south-western CAR
Dancers and musicians perform in Bossangoa, CAR, as part of a program to keep young people away from armed groups
Wildlife rangers guard two arrested poachers in Chinko, eastern CAR
Margret Kagole, a community leader from Uganda’s minority Bagungu group, feeds her chickens in Buliisa, western Uganda
Fishermen pull in their catch from a river in south-western CAR
Chinese and Uganda workers at a construction project near Lake Albert in western Uganda
A boxer trains at a gym in Naguru, a hillside slum in the Ugandan capital, Kampala
Rebel soldiers sit on the roof of their vehicle in the village of Bamingui in the Central African Republic
Left: Martha Kabugho with her adopted daughter, Bira, whose father was shot by rangers in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park. Right: Doreen Masika with her adopted son, Cedric, whose father was killed by a buffalo while hunting there. As hardship drives local people to poach inside the park, these two women are among a sisterhood who are raising orphans whose parents have died while hunting
A boy stands in the doorway to his family’s shop in the rebel-held town of Ndele in the Central African Republic
A tailor mends clothes on the street in Katunguru, a village inside Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park
A man walks past a pizza shack in Naguru, a hillside slum in the Ugandan capital, Kampala
A mountain gorilla from the Mukiza family rests with an infant in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
