Cross of Peace in Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv
The Cross of Peace installation by American photographer, artist, traveller and philanthropist Sergey Melnikoff and Ukrainian metalwork expert Viktor Belchik is outside the gymnasium from where a Russian sabotage and reconnaissance group was dislodged in the first days of Russias full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine, on March 5, 2025. The Cross of Peace features water supply pipes retrieved by rescuers from residential buildings in Kharkiv and Odesa damaged by Russian shelling. The Christ figure is made from 20,0000 small fragments of artillery shells and mines collected from Ukrainian fields and is plated in 999.9-purity gold. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)
- Product Code
- ILEA004123228
- Registered date
- 2025/3/05 00:00:00
- Credit
- Ukrinform / Kyodo News Images
- Media size
- 5472 × 3648 pixel
- Deployment size
- 11.77(MB)*
- Special instruction
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