Ukraine Calls Out World Press Photo for Moral Equivalence Between Ukrainian Victims and Russian Aggressors

Ukraine Calls Out World Press Photo for Moral Equivalence Between Ukrainian Victims and Russian Aggressors

On March 28, Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed concern over the World Press Photo’s decision to present a paired image featuring a Ukrainian child affected by war alongside a Russian soldier. This decision, along with the recognition of Russian photographers connected to state-backed media outlets and images depicting the war from Russia’s perspective, has sparked significant backlash. The World Press Photo, on March 27, announced …

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine condemned the immoral manipulation of the tragedies of the Ukrainian people and, in part, the child for sharing a photo with an injured Ukrainian girl and photographs of the occupier - such a “company position” from two photos created by World Press Photo, located a number of the victim and the killer. This was stated by the speaker of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Georgy Tikhiy in the X s…

At the annual World Press Photo 2025 documentary photography competition, the jury placed two pictures side by side, which they called a “visual couple” conveying the pain and suffering of people due to war.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine called it deplorable decision of World Press Photo to create a tandem of two photos in which a Ukrainian child and a soldier of the Russian army injured by the war