Zarina Zabrisky
@zarinazabrisky.bsky.social
US journalist in Ukraine.
War correspondent: BylineTimes, EuromaidanPress
Also BBC World, TVP World, Sunday Post.
Literary Essays: Longreads, Paris Review, LARB.
🎥 https://khersonhumansafari.com/
Author. Novel: We, Monsters (2012)
War correspondent: BylineTimes, EuromaidanPress
Also BBC World, TVP World, Sunday Post.
Literary Essays: Longreads, Paris Review, LARB.
🎥 https://khersonhumansafari.com/
Author. Novel: We, Monsters (2012)
The photo of the year: Angelina Jolie in an anti-drone tunnel.
Thanks to Jolie, the world now knows:
Kherson, a Ukrainian city, lives on, one mile away from the front, under non-stop short-range drone attacks.
Much gratitude.
📷 By my source.
Thanks to Jolie, the world now knows:
Kherson, a Ukrainian city, lives on, one mile away from the front, under non-stop short-range drone attacks.
Much gratitude.
📷 By my source.
November 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The photo of the year: Angelina Jolie in an anti-drone tunnel.
Thanks to Jolie, the world now knows:
Kherson, a Ukrainian city, lives on, one mile away from the front, under non-stop short-range drone attacks.
Much gratitude.
📷 By my source.
Thanks to Jolie, the world now knows:
Kherson, a Ukrainian city, lives on, one mile away from the front, under non-stop short-range drone attacks.
Much gratitude.
📷 By my source.
🔴 The latest UN report exposes Russia’s systematic use of drones and deportations drive civilians from their homes across Kherson, Mykolaiv, and Zaporizhzhia regions.
These are war crimes and crimes against humanity, part of a state policy of depopulation.
My comment ⬇️
These are war crimes and crimes against humanity, part of a state policy of depopulation.
My comment ⬇️
October 28, 2025 at 8:31 AM
🔴 The latest UN report exposes Russia’s systematic use of drones and deportations drive civilians from their homes across Kherson, Mykolaiv, and Zaporizhzhia regions.
These are war crimes and crimes against humanity, part of a state policy of depopulation.
My comment ⬇️
These are war crimes and crimes against humanity, part of a state policy of depopulation.
My comment ⬇️
Honored that Kherson: HumanSafari is invited to Berlin Freedom Week & Doxumentale, despite being public. We didn’t wait for a traditional premiere: Kherson faces hourly attacks. All screening funds go to civilians, defenders & anti-drone aid.
So this is special. Join us Nov 14, Colliseum Theater.
So this is special. Join us Nov 14, Colliseum Theater.
October 20, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Honored that Kherson: HumanSafari is invited to Berlin Freedom Week & Doxumentale, despite being public. We didn’t wait for a traditional premiere: Kherson faces hourly attacks. All screening funds go to civilians, defenders & anti-drone aid.
So this is special. Join us Nov 14, Colliseum Theater.
So this is special. Join us Nov 14, Colliseum Theater.
No Kings! Protests are a success because they destroy the attempt to turn the cult of a god-like ruler into a state religion.
Lots of Americans can resist the seduction of tribalism. What a relief to know this.
The photo is from the July No Kings in LA, by me.
Lots of Americans can resist the seduction of tribalism. What a relief to know this.
The photo is from the July No Kings in LA, by me.
October 20, 2025 at 5:06 AM
No Kings! Protests are a success because they destroy the attempt to turn the cult of a god-like ruler into a state religion.
Lots of Americans can resist the seduction of tribalism. What a relief to know this.
The photo is from the July No Kings in LA, by me.
Lots of Americans can resist the seduction of tribalism. What a relief to know this.
The photo is from the July No Kings in LA, by me.
No Kings! Protests are a success because they destroy the attempt to turn the cult of a god-like ruler into a state religion.
Lots of Americans can resist the seduction of tribalism.
The photo is from the July No Kings in LA, by me.
Lots of Americans can resist the seduction of tribalism.
The photo is from the July No Kings in LA, by me.
October 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
No Kings! Protests are a success because they destroy the attempt to turn the cult of a god-like ruler into a state religion.
Lots of Americans can resist the seduction of tribalism.
The photo is from the July No Kings in LA, by me.
Lots of Americans can resist the seduction of tribalism.
The photo is from the July No Kings in LA, by me.
Merci, France! Already 5 screenings of Kherson:Human Safari (Paris, Grenoble, Nantes, Lyon, and counting)
So thankful for @lemonde.fr coverage of the Kherson film premiere-great photos by Virginie Nguyen Hoang.
.
Today, Paris. Tomorrow, Lyon.
Massive thanks to
@kanarifella.bsky.social
-the best!
So thankful for @lemonde.fr coverage of the Kherson film premiere-great photos by Virginie Nguyen Hoang.
.
Today, Paris. Tomorrow, Lyon.
Massive thanks to
@kanarifella.bsky.social
-the best!
October 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Merci, France! Already 5 screenings of Kherson:Human Safari (Paris, Grenoble, Nantes, Lyon, and counting)
So thankful for @lemonde.fr coverage of the Kherson film premiere-great photos by Virginie Nguyen Hoang.
.
Today, Paris. Tomorrow, Lyon.
Massive thanks to
@kanarifella.bsky.social
-the best!
So thankful for @lemonde.fr coverage of the Kherson film premiere-great photos by Virginie Nguyen Hoang.
.
Today, Paris. Tomorrow, Lyon.
Massive thanks to
@kanarifella.bsky.social
-the best!
If you are in Melbourne on September 15, please come to the film screening hosted by the Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations and the Embassy of Ukraine in Australia
For my latest video reports from the ground, subscribe to my recently revived YouTube www.youtube.com/@zarinazabri...
For my latest video reports from the ground, subscribe to my recently revived YouTube www.youtube.com/@zarinazabri...
September 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
If you are in Melbourne on September 15, please come to the film screening hosted by the Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations and the Embassy of Ukraine in Australia
For my latest video reports from the ground, subscribe to my recently revived YouTube www.youtube.com/@zarinazabri...
For my latest video reports from the ground, subscribe to my recently revived YouTube www.youtube.com/@zarinazabri...
Kherson - Antonivka: the Road of Death.
200 km/hour to avoid drones. Dystopian landscape. Yet, people still live here. Their stories are forthcoming.
Some “liberation”: see for yourself.
200 km/hour to avoid drones. Dystopian landscape. Yet, people still live here. Their stories are forthcoming.
Some “liberation”: see for yourself.
September 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Kherson - Antonivka: the Road of Death.
200 km/hour to avoid drones. Dystopian landscape. Yet, people still live here. Their stories are forthcoming.
Some “liberation”: see for yourself.
200 km/hour to avoid drones. Dystopian landscape. Yet, people still live here. Their stories are forthcoming.
Some “liberation”: see for yourself.
A regular day in Kherson. Drones, aerial bombs, artillery. Tanks, mortar. 24/7
I'm not sharing my videos here as this platform requires a different format; no time but I did start sharing my video reports on YouTube regularly.
Please find my reports there.
www.youtube.com/@zarinazabri...
I'm not sharing my videos here as this platform requires a different format; no time but I did start sharing my video reports on YouTube regularly.
Please find my reports there.
www.youtube.com/@zarinazabri...
September 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A regular day in Kherson. Drones, aerial bombs, artillery. Tanks, mortar. 24/7
I'm not sharing my videos here as this platform requires a different format; no time but I did start sharing my video reports on YouTube regularly.
Please find my reports there.
www.youtube.com/@zarinazabri...
I'm not sharing my videos here as this platform requires a different format; no time but I did start sharing my video reports on YouTube regularly.
Please find my reports there.
www.youtube.com/@zarinazabri...
🚨Reporting first-ever drone siege in history.
Russian FPV drones try to cut off the only road connecting Kherson to the rest of Ukraine by striking vehicles
Just today, two cars were destroyed in an hour.
Ukrainians respond by installing drone tunnels and driving with drone detectors.
1/3
Russian FPV drones try to cut off the only road connecting Kherson to the rest of Ukraine by striking vehicles
Just today, two cars were destroyed in an hour.
Ukrainians respond by installing drone tunnels and driving with drone detectors.
1/3
August 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
🚨Reporting first-ever drone siege in history.
Russian FPV drones try to cut off the only road connecting Kherson to the rest of Ukraine by striking vehicles
Just today, two cars were destroyed in an hour.
Ukrainians respond by installing drone tunnels and driving with drone detectors.
1/3
Russian FPV drones try to cut off the only road connecting Kherson to the rest of Ukraine by striking vehicles
Just today, two cars were destroyed in an hour.
Ukrainians respond by installing drone tunnels and driving with drone detectors.
1/3
Tomorrow, on Ukraine's Independence Day, Kherson: Human Safari @KhersonHS2025 will be premiering in:
France, Grenoble (see below), with Mriya Ukraine Grenoble
and
New York, with the Ukrainian Institute of America, along with other great films:
ukrainianinstitute.org/event/open-h...
France, Grenoble (see below), with Mriya Ukraine Grenoble
and
New York, with the Ukrainian Institute of America, along with other great films:
ukrainianinstitute.org/event/open-h...
August 23, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Tomorrow, on Ukraine's Independence Day, Kherson: Human Safari @KhersonHS2025 will be premiering in:
France, Grenoble (see below), with Mriya Ukraine Grenoble
and
New York, with the Ukrainian Institute of America, along with other great films:
ukrainianinstitute.org/event/open-h...
France, Grenoble (see below), with Mriya Ukraine Grenoble
and
New York, with the Ukrainian Institute of America, along with other great films:
ukrainianinstitute.org/event/open-h...
Many thanks to @ittnerphilip.bsky.social
for including me in his excellent marathon coverage of the negotiations in Alaska and Washington, D.C.
The lineup is stellar, the leading experts on Ukraine.
My part at 1:59:09. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra35...
for including me in his excellent marathon coverage of the negotiations in Alaska and Washington, D.C.
The lineup is stellar, the leading experts on Ukraine.
My part at 1:59:09. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra35...
August 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Many thanks to @ittnerphilip.bsky.social
for including me in his excellent marathon coverage of the negotiations in Alaska and Washington, D.C.
The lineup is stellar, the leading experts on Ukraine.
My part at 1:59:09. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra35...
for including me in his excellent marathon coverage of the negotiations in Alaska and Washington, D.C.
The lineup is stellar, the leading experts on Ukraine.
My part at 1:59:09. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra35...
Tomorrow, Wednesday, August 13, join me for a conversation with Razom for Ukraine. It is online, 9 pm ET.
August 13, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Tomorrow, Wednesday, August 13, join me for a conversation with Razom for Ukraine. It is online, 9 pm ET.
Bohdan* was cycling on the bridge when the Russian aerial bomb hit. He got a concussion but helped others.
“Kherson can’t be broken, no one will break it...
You don’t hear about Kherson. We live in Ukraine. We didn’t surrender Kherson, and we won’t surrender it.
*name changed
“Kherson can’t be broken, no one will break it...
You don’t hear about Kherson. We live in Ukraine. We didn’t surrender Kherson, and we won’t surrender it.
*name changed
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Bohdan* was cycling on the bridge when the Russian aerial bomb hit. He got a concussion but helped others.
“Kherson can’t be broken, no one will break it...
You don’t hear about Kherson. We live in Ukraine. We didn’t surrender Kherson, and we won’t surrender it.
*name changed
“Kherson can’t be broken, no one will break it...
You don’t hear about Kherson. We live in Ukraine. We didn’t surrender Kherson, and we won’t surrender it.
*name changed
Kyiv, last night:
15 killed, including a boy, 6
132 injured, including 14 children
Sleeping people thrown out of their apartments by blast waves.
Residential buildings, mosques are damaged
📸 ABC News
15 killed, including a boy, 6
132 injured, including 14 children
Sleeping people thrown out of their apartments by blast waves.
Residential buildings, mosques are damaged
📸 ABC News
July 31, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Kyiv, last night:
15 killed, including a boy, 6
132 injured, including 14 children
Sleeping people thrown out of their apartments by blast waves.
Residential buildings, mosques are damaged
📸 ABC News
15 killed, including a boy, 6
132 injured, including 14 children
Sleeping people thrown out of their apartments by blast waves.
Residential buildings, mosques are damaged
📸 ABC News
🔴 Starlink: My research confirms Russians systematically use Starlink all along the frontline.
SpaceX denies it.
This violates sanctions, even if obtained via intermediaries.
Also: Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink service as Ukraine retook Kherson. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
SpaceX denies it.
This violates sanctions, even if obtained via intermediaries.
Also: Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink service as Ukraine retook Kherson. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
July 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🔴 Starlink: My research confirms Russians systematically use Starlink all along the frontline.
SpaceX denies it.
This violates sanctions, even if obtained via intermediaries.
Also: Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink service as Ukraine retook Kherson. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
SpaceX denies it.
This violates sanctions, even if obtained via intermediaries.
Also: Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink service as Ukraine retook Kherson. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
🔴 Kherson. Human safari. Russian drones attacked today:
6 am a thermal power plant 📸by Russian Tg channel
7.30 injured a woman, 60; the ambulance helping her (woman, 63; man, 47)
9 am injured a woman, 88
9:15 am utility workers. 1 killed, 2 injured
9.30 am a woman, 73 x.com/i/status/194...
6 am a thermal power plant 📸by Russian Tg channel
7.30 injured a woman, 60; the ambulance helping her (woman, 63; man, 47)
9 am injured a woman, 88
9:15 am utility workers. 1 killed, 2 injured
9.30 am a woman, 73 x.com/i/status/194...
July 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🔴 Kherson. Human safari. Russian drones attacked today:
6 am a thermal power plant 📸by Russian Tg channel
7.30 injured a woman, 60; the ambulance helping her (woman, 63; man, 47)
9 am injured a woman, 88
9:15 am utility workers. 1 killed, 2 injured
9.30 am a woman, 73 x.com/i/status/194...
6 am a thermal power plant 📸by Russian Tg channel
7.30 injured a woman, 60; the ambulance helping her (woman, 63; man, 47)
9 am injured a woman, 88
9:15 am utility workers. 1 killed, 2 injured
9.30 am a woman, 73 x.com/i/status/194...
🆘 We still have time to save Kherson, the city in Ukraine, which is being bombarded and attacked by drones daily.
Today, the theater was shelled; many historic buildings destroyed this week.
Our film can raise global awareness.
Watch free here:
khersonhumansafari.com
Today, the theater was shelled; many historic buildings destroyed this week.
Our film can raise global awareness.
Watch free here:
khersonhumansafari.com
July 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
🆘 We still have time to save Kherson, the city in Ukraine, which is being bombarded and attacked by drones daily.
Today, the theater was shelled; many historic buildings destroyed this week.
Our film can raise global awareness.
Watch free here:
khersonhumansafari.com
Today, the theater was shelled; many historic buildings destroyed this week.
Our film can raise global awareness.
Watch free here:
khersonhumansafari.com
🔴 Dmitryk, 14 months old, killed by a Russian strike drone in Pravdine, Kherson region at home. He was with his great-grandmother. -
@Prokudin__
, the head of Kherson Military Administration
Russia turned the Kherson region into a human safari park.
The world is silent.
@Prokudin__
, the head of Kherson Military Administration
Russia turned the Kherson region into a human safari park.
The world is silent.
July 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
🔴 Dmitryk, 14 months old, killed by a Russian strike drone in Pravdine, Kherson region at home. He was with his great-grandmother. -
@Prokudin__
, the head of Kherson Military Administration
Russia turned the Kherson region into a human safari park.
The world is silent.
@Prokudin__
, the head of Kherson Military Administration
Russia turned the Kherson region into a human safari park.
The world is silent.
A protest in Dallas, 4th of July, opposing Trump's policies and mass deportations. So few people showed up it is shameful.
Met some wonderful people, though.
A US Air Force veteran @the-writing-ref.bsky.social: “The situation in Ukraine affects us as a world community.”
W/ Gia Santos.
Met some wonderful people, though.
A US Air Force veteran @the-writing-ref.bsky.social: “The situation in Ukraine affects us as a world community.”
W/ Gia Santos.
July 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
A protest in Dallas, 4th of July, opposing Trump's policies and mass deportations. So few people showed up it is shameful.
Met some wonderful people, though.
A US Air Force veteran @the-writing-ref.bsky.social: “The situation in Ukraine affects us as a world community.”
W/ Gia Santos.
Met some wonderful people, though.
A US Air Force veteran @the-writing-ref.bsky.social: “The situation in Ukraine affects us as a world community.”
W/ Gia Santos.
🔴 Kherson: human safari continues. This morning, many attacks, including this one—a Russian drone drops explosives on a civilian car downtown today.
@khersonhumansafari.bsky.social
@khersonhumansafari.bsky.social
June 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
🔴 Kherson: human safari continues. This morning, many attacks, including this one—a Russian drone drops explosives on a civilian car downtown today.
@khersonhumansafari.bsky.social
@khersonhumansafari.bsky.social
Kherson: Russians shelled a toy store.
I shopped for gifts for little ones I know there. Dinosaurs, plastic babies, unicorns.
“They probably thought it was a NATO base. We’ve got water guns.”
📸 by my colleague and friend Oleksandr Kornyakov.
I shopped for gifts for little ones I know there. Dinosaurs, plastic babies, unicorns.
“They probably thought it was a NATO base. We’ve got water guns.”
📸 by my colleague and friend Oleksandr Kornyakov.
June 30, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Kherson: Russians shelled a toy store.
I shopped for gifts for little ones I know there. Dinosaurs, plastic babies, unicorns.
“They probably thought it was a NATO base. We’ve got water guns.”
📸 by my colleague and friend Oleksandr Kornyakov.
I shopped for gifts for little ones I know there. Dinosaurs, plastic babies, unicorns.
“They probably thought it was a NATO base. We’ve got water guns.”
📸 by my colleague and friend Oleksandr Kornyakov.
🚨 Kherson. Russian FPV drones destroy the city by dropping incendiary devices. A dozen of houses burnt today; some are still on fire.
“God, please, no drones…”
Later today, a quiet launch of a documentary about Kherson, to raise awareness and help the city. -- with @khersonhumansafari.bsky.social
“God, please, no drones…”
Later today, a quiet launch of a documentary about Kherson, to raise awareness and help the city. -- with @khersonhumansafari.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
🚨 Kherson. Russian FPV drones destroy the city by dropping incendiary devices. A dozen of houses burnt today; some are still on fire.
“God, please, no drones…”
Later today, a quiet launch of a documentary about Kherson, to raise awareness and help the city. -- with @khersonhumansafari.bsky.social
“God, please, no drones…”
Later today, a quiet launch of a documentary about Kherson, to raise awareness and help the city. -- with @khersonhumansafari.bsky.social
🔴 Kherson. Human safari goes arson.
Today, Russian FPV drones carrying incendiary devices started 12-13 fires. 6-7 houses burned.
Many civilians injured by shrapnel, suffered burns, CO poisoning.
Reporting by Khersonians, featured in our forthcoming documentary @khersonhumansafari.bsky.social
Today, Russian FPV drones carrying incendiary devices started 12-13 fires. 6-7 houses burned.
Many civilians injured by shrapnel, suffered burns, CO poisoning.
Reporting by Khersonians, featured in our forthcoming documentary @khersonhumansafari.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
🔴 Kherson. Human safari goes arson.
Today, Russian FPV drones carrying incendiary devices started 12-13 fires. 6-7 houses burned.
Many civilians injured by shrapnel, suffered burns, CO poisoning.
Reporting by Khersonians, featured in our forthcoming documentary @khersonhumansafari.bsky.social
Today, Russian FPV drones carrying incendiary devices started 12-13 fires. 6-7 houses burned.
Many civilians injured by shrapnel, suffered burns, CO poisoning.
Reporting by Khersonians, featured in our forthcoming documentary @khersonhumansafari.bsky.social
PUBLIC STATEMENT – URGENT
1/ I, Zarina Zabrisky, author, producer, director of Kherson: Human Safari—a documentary on Russia’s invasion, occupation, and systematic drone warfare in Kherson, Ukraine, testifying about attacks recently recognized by the UN and HRW as war crimes.🧵
1/ I, Zarina Zabrisky, author, producer, director of Kherson: Human Safari—a documentary on Russia’s invasion, occupation, and systematic drone warfare in Kherson, Ukraine, testifying about attacks recently recognized by the UN and HRW as war crimes.🧵
June 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
PUBLIC STATEMENT – URGENT
1/ I, Zarina Zabrisky, author, producer, director of Kherson: Human Safari—a documentary on Russia’s invasion, occupation, and systematic drone warfare in Kherson, Ukraine, testifying about attacks recently recognized by the UN and HRW as war crimes.🧵
1/ I, Zarina Zabrisky, author, producer, director of Kherson: Human Safari—a documentary on Russia’s invasion, occupation, and systematic drone warfare in Kherson, Ukraine, testifying about attacks recently recognized by the UN and HRW as war crimes.🧵