Thus we decided to play it safe and only take pictures from the outside. Our foot steps could easily be traced in the snow and there was no one else around except ourselves. Having come such a long way, the last thing we wanted was to be send away! On top, with the ongoing war it wasn’t the right time to get arrested near a military facility!īut it felt like it was hard to get unnoticed. Me and a friend used the ordinary footpaths in order not to attract any attention. So the first thing to do was to scan the area by walking around the entire facility. READ MORE: A Soviet-Style Military Parade in the Streets of Kyiv, Ukraine It was a major disappointment since I expected to find an abandoned ‘graveyard’. Damaged tanks were being repaired and redeployed to the war in nearby Donbas. Second disappointment: a local living across the road explained that the site was still operational. There were guards in watch towers and people walking around. To get to the location was easy a bus stops right in front of the gates. But my first disappointment came quick: the site was heavily monitored. Graffiti on the backside of the graveyard claiming the brotherhood between Ukraine and Russia. I switched to street view and saw dozens of tank barrels sticking out over a fence. I discovered a vast industrial site on the outskirts of town where I was able to distinguish what looked like hundreds of individual battle tanks. But in order to pinpoint the exact location, I had to scan the area using Google satellite images.
They linked me with Kharkiv residents, after which we were quickly able to guess on an approximate area. I needed help from locals so I started contacting friends in Ukraine. I was able to distinguish what looked like hundreds of individual battle tanks.
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