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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)
🔴 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.

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October 28, 2025 at 8:31 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.
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Today, Paris. Tomorrow, Lyon.

Massive thanks to
@kanarifella.bsky.social
-the best!
October 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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.
September 5, 2025 at 7:26 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...
September 2, 2025 at 3:12 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
August 25, 2025 at 8:33 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
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 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
July 31, 2025 at 7:24 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...
July 26, 2025 at 2:10 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...
July 25, 2025 at 6:03 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
July 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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.
July 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
🔴 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
June 30, 2025 at 9:35 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
June 26, 2025 at 9:47 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
June 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM