War in Ukraine: on the T1501 road, the scars of battles in the eyes of a Parisian

This is a road that runs along the right bank of the Dnieper, and then its mouth, in southern Ukraine. Under the autumn sun, the T1501 highway, which links Kherson, liberated by the Ukrainians shortly after the withdrawal of the Russian army, with Nikolaev, may look like a road leading straight to a vacation. But the war passed and disfigured the ribbon of asphalt.

At the entrance to this village on T1501 there is a yellow-blue flag of Ukraine. Yellow for sunflower fields, blue for the sky.

The carcasses of battle tanks testify to the fierceness of the clashes …

… that caused collateral damage, like this burnt car

The poster was riddled with bullets. Here the men also fought leg to leg.

The villas are almost all destroyed and their owners are not going to return.

A bus stop in the colors of Ukraine has seen more tanks than school buses lately.

This small piece of land between the reservoir and the mouth of the Dnieper is the subject of fierce disputes between Ukrainians and Russians.

Indian summer brings its last rays of sunshine, as the first snowfalls will be announced in Kyiv next week.

The road is still closed and it will take many weeks of clearing and demining to make it passable again.

Tank guns stand behind the thickets and only soldiers who have the password can borrow it.