Historical sites have become another type of battlefield in Russia's war, as volunteers battle to preserve Ukrainian identity for future generations.
Meanwhile, Ukraine is pouring money and the donations of Western nations backing it into its military, trying to claw back more territory as the summer fighting months begin.Ukraine's heritage sites have already faced many past cycles of destruction. The country has been under the control of Tsarist Russia, the Nazis during World War II, and the Soviet Union in the decades after.
The device has two rectangular boxes connected by a high-resolution, rapidly spinning camera in the centre.The camera captures the insides of the church so closely that even the textures of the brushstrokes will be recorded. The images can be vital for historians, prosecutors or investigators who later want to see such scenes long after any repairs."This is important to preserve because what the enemy and the Russians are trying to destroy is who we are and what our identity is," Revenko explains.
The monastery's gates bear the blue shield emblem of the 1954 Hague Convention, in theory providing the site with the protection of international law. Durand and Revenko also travelled to the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, far closer to the front lines, to create images of other cultural sites.
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