Wake Up Call is a series of pictures Volodymyr Petrov took at the beginning of the russian full-scale invasion in the spring of 2022.
On February 24, 2022, I woke up at 4 a.m. to explosions. Jumping out of bed, I ran into the bathroom, where there were no windows. Sitting in the corner, I called my father and started looking for breaking news. It has started. What we were waiting for and yet still were dreading. We didn't want to believe something like this could be possible until the end. A full-scale invasion and a new, open phase of the Russian war against Ukraine has begun.
Since 2014 russia has been fighting its hybrid war against Ukraine and everyone since then has gotten used to the war which has gone mostly stale. Launching a full-scale invasion russians opened the largest frontline in Europe since the Second World War with millions fighting in the armies and thousands of soldiers and civilians being killed every day. Today, in the 11th year of russias war against Ukraine, Ukrainians are still standing.
