Gray Zone

• Photographer
  Valery Melnikov
• Agency / Studio
  Sputnik
• Prize
  Honorable Mention in Editorial / Conflict

Vasily Fesko, 73 years old is the one of the last inhabitants of the frontline village of Sakhanka, Donbass, Ukraine. Sakhanka is a village on the south of Donetsk region, which is located on the front line. Before the conflict in Donbass ( Eastern Ukraine ), more than a thousand people lived here and now the population has declined dramatically.