--- title: The Story Behind the Ukraine Yellow Kitchen Photo description: Ukrainian photographer Yan Dobronosov captured the image in the city of Dnipro, where 45 people were killed in a Russian missile strike. canonical: https://time.com/6247839/ukraine-yellow-kitchen-photo-dnipro/ author: Solcyré Burga article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-01-17T22:35:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:44:40.230Z article:section: World og:title: The Story Behind the Ukraine Yellow Kitchen Photo og:description: Ukrainian photographer Yan Dobronosov captured the image in the city of Dnipro, where 45 people were killed in a Russian missile strike. og:url: https://time.com/6247839/ukraine-yellow-kitchen-photo-dnipro/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde22978be5bb4ad0/698a3983929fad3b6bbf9789/Dnipro-Ukraine-apartment-strike-russia-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2400 og:image:height: 1350 og:image:alt: Aftermath of Dnipro apartment block destruction following missile strike og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Story Behind the Ukraine Yellow Kitchen Photo twitter:description: Ukrainian photographer Yan Dobronosov captured the image in the city of Dnipro, where 45 people were killed in a Russian missile strike. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde22978be5bb4ad0/698a3983929fad3b6bbf9789/Dnipro-Ukraine-apartment-strike-russia-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Story Behind the Ukraine Yellow Kitchen Photo, and What It Says About the War Now > Sponsored content. 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Ukrainian photographer Yan Dobronosov captured the image in the city of Dnipro, where 45 people were killed in a Russian missile strike._ by [Solcyré Burga](https://time.com/author/solcyre-burga/) and [Kim Bubello](https://time.com/author/kim-bubello/) Jan 17, 2023 10:35 PM UTC  A view shows a kitchen inside an apartment damaged by a Russian missile strike in Dnipro, Ukraine on Jan. 15, 2023. A view shows a kitchen inside an apartment damaged by a Russian missile strike in Dnipro, Ukraine on Jan. 15, 2023. Yan Dobronosov—Reuters by [Solcyré Burga](https://time.com/author/solcyre-burga/) and [Kim Bubello](https://time.com/author/kim-bubello/) Jan 17, 2023 10:35 PM UTC Millions of social media users are reacting solemnly to the image of a bright yellow kitchen in Ukraine that captures the grim reality of Russia’s targeting of infrastructure across the country. The photo, taken by 36-year-old Ukrainian photographer Yan Dobronosov, shows a home whose external wall was torn off after a 38-foot Russian missile struck the apartment building. The yellow kitchen inside remains almost untouched, with fruit still on the table. Dobronosov says he arrived on-scene a day after the missile struck and initially took photos from below before using a drone to capture the scene in the photo as soon as he saw the kitchen table above him. The pictures were reminiscent of his own home, he tells TIME. “It struck me because in the photo there is a big difference between life and death,” he says by email, calling the image symbolic. The attack killed 45 people in the city of Dnipro on Jan. 14, including popular boxing coach Mykhailo Korenovsky, who lived in the apartment complex. He is survived by his wife and daughters, who had gone on a walk at the time of the airstrike, [according to CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/yellow-kitchen-ukraine-russia-missile-strike-dnipro-civilian-deaths-war-crimes/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab8c&linkId=197595041). “Here people cooked, had kitchen conversations, celebrated holidays, laughed, argued,” said Ukranian parliament member Zoya Yarosh in a Facebook [post](https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=5774051292691180&set=a.275066765923021) where she shared the picture. Yarosh compared the kitchen to Ukraine, where people “all lived and dreamed.”  Firefighters stand near a dump truck while their colleagues are conducting search and rescue operations at a residential building hit by a missile in Dnipro, Ukraine on Jan. 15, 2023. Yan Dobronosov—Global Images Ukraine/Getty Images  A rescue worker stands amid rubble during search and rescue operations in Dnipro, on Jan. 15. Yan Dobronosov—Global Images Ukraine/Getty Images  A bathtub lies amid rubble of a residential building in Dnipro hit by a missile, on Jan. 15. Yan Dobronosov—Global Images Ukraine/Getty Images As of November 2022, Russia and Ukraine have each suffered more than 100,000 casualties, [according to the New York _Times_](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-casualties-deaths.html). Dobronosov, who has been capturing images of the fighting in Ukraine since 2014, says that these past few months have been some of the toughest—though he is no stranger to the type of scenes shown in this photo. “We have already seen this during the war in Borodyanka, Izum and others, when houses stand \[blasted\] in half,” he says. Borodyanka was one of the first cities to be hit by Russian missiles after the country invaded Ukraine on Feb. 22\. At least 200 people [died](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/world/asia/ukraine-civilians-russia-borodyanka.html) and four apartment buildings collapsed, the _Times_ [reports](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/world/asia/ukraine-civilians-russia-borodyanka.html). A [video](https://twitter.com/ukraine%5Fworld/status/1614755663430795264) of the victim’s family reportedly celebrating his daughter’s birthday in that same kitchen is also circulating online, reminding many of just how quickly life can be taken. “This is heart wrenching. The pain and terror Ukrainians are going through is unacceptable and heartbreaking. I am so so sorry. Sending love and light,” said one Twitter [user](https://twitter.com/Kristin67377787/status/1614869109338144769) reacting to the news. ## Transcript Ukrainian flag on a flying in the city of Carson of the Russian troops withdrew from the airplanes president, made a surprise visit to her song, the largest city retaken today from Russia, in the beginning or the end of the war. I was able to join president selenski on a trip to your phone. You wanted to get there as fast as possible is security, were dead set against it. They told him, please don't go there at least. Wait, so that the mind-clearing teams can go through Russian Artillery, can very easily strike. It was extremely dangerous knowledge that and he said I still need to go. The situation on the ground is painful and tragic, but I think a lot of the covers misses is the positivity. And in the resilience that Ukrainian show even when there's a blackout, even when their missile strikes, people continue to try to go about their daily lives. Not get into the fair, not given to the depression to keep living. My name is Simon Schuster. I'm a correspondent for Time Magazine and I've been covering Russia and Ukraine for about 15 years. I've experienced the war inside the presidential bubble to a large extent because of my previous relationships with with the president is team. They've been super generous in letting me be a fly on the wall. The photographer who work with me on the story. Might seem Duke, I've known him for many years, is a dear old friend of mine. We met during the revolution in Ukraine. In 2014. Did you ask ukrainians if they'll tell you this war has been going on for a year is not fundamentally new. But what happened in? February is a much larger scale, much more violent, much more horrifying. I have no dream about to be War photographer for creeping in my country more than 8 years ago. I should to cover this and work with magazine, spreads of tools, real situation, and try to fight against the Russian propaganda in the world. I am really proud to be grainy On In This Moment. I started reporting on presidents Wednesday before he was president. His career before. He went into politics in 2019, was as a comedian movie producer and actor. He made fun of the politicians that you ended up replacing. Virginia ever seen your dream, came to power, promising to be from outside the system. Not corrupted by the oligarchs. The wealthy and self-serving Elites, that's how he defines himself as one of the main reasons why his campaign was successful. And I think many people voted because they believed that the president that they saw in that TV show would be the president. This is when she would become Things are more complicated. What is a wartime leader? I think. President zelensky is surprised everybody consistently. What his advisers have told me since the beginning of the invasion is that he lets the general do the fighting and he focuses on what he is good at, which is communication, grabbing the attention of the world and not allowing the world to turn away to make sure that the West, the US Europeans, actively support Ukraine with weapons supplies, with financial aid, with political support. Also inspiring the public with speeches, story. He's always on line is always filming videos, posting videos and the way that he's been able to communicate, not only with his people, but the people around the world or we're watching this war is is unique to history. And I think that's been a very powerful tool friend when you get a minute. This was his decision to stay in key of throughout. The invasion has been so important because it was very hard morally politically personally, for anyone else in the structure of the state, ministers, government officials to leave because of the bosses there. I think it was Wednesday to run away, it's it's fair to say that there would be a much higher chance that the state structure of Ukraine. Ukraine is a, the country is, is a state that the government would collapse. Show The Country Inn. And I think many around the world. That key is not scared. There's no reason to fear this. This Invader that that Ukraine can win that, it will win that inspired. A lot of people in inside the country and outside to stand up and help fight this war. Ukrainians generally hold, they're worried about the future inside people say, just give it a couple more months and we'll have our Victory. They certainly expressed that belief all the time but it's it's a it's a scary time. This strategy that Russia is pursuing of bombing and freezing the country into submission is very scary Ukraine's Capital again I talked to you in Ukraine, aren't sure how they're going to get through that but if asked and do you think the victory is around the corner? They say yes. We're definitely going to win and and victory is coming. I think everybody up, right? I just don't believe it's a photographer or Soldier. Save me, I'm not afraid to try to fight because we fight for our phone. We don't have any choice. When I talked about the role in history with the landscape was on a train coming back from hair salon, he said it's too early to judge my role in history. I'm not done yet. I still need to finish this thing for the country and I think they wasn't really just the war. He meant, he wants to finish this kind of cycle of Oppression and subjugation that Russia has pursued for Generations. He doesn't want to, just have a temporary truce or an Armistice that allows Russia can rearm and retrench and cry. Again, really wants to break the cycle. So the Russians ever attack c-crane again. So that it remains a free independent and sovereign country. That's how he sees his role in history. And and what he wants to do, if not, just kind of set them to go, see a shins that leads to a cease-fire. 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