The stunning town of Mostar on the river Neretva was ravaged by the Bosnian war in successive campaigns. First a siege by the Yugoslav army left it badly damaged. Then came the bitter conflict between Croat forces and local defenders, loyal to the government in Sarajevo, on the eastern bank of the river.
When the war finished across Bosnia in 1996 the scars were visible everywhere in Mostar, and little was known about the fate of Serb civilians in the area. In these pictures you see UN peacekeepers visiting the Serb village of Lakat, before they return home themselves to face an unknown future in their native Ukraine. Oleksandr Klymenko was there with his camera.
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Oleksandr Klymenko studied journalism at Kyiv State University, has been working as a photo reporter for some of Ukraine's largest papers. In the 1990s he was a staff reporter for the Kyiv bureau of "Der Spiegel", he contributed for "El Pais" and other international publications.
Over the last 20 years Oleksandr has witnessed UN peacekeeping operations in the former Yugoslavia, Lebanon, Kuwait, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, South Sudan, DR Congo. He is the author of several photo albums, his archive contains thousands of photos.
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Oлександр Клименко закончил факультет журналистики Киевского государственного университета имени Тараса Шевченко. С 1990-х годов работает фоторепортером газеты "Голос Украины", был штатным фотографом украинского бюро журнала "Der Spiegel", сотрудничал с испанской газетой "El Pais" и другими изданиями.
За последние 20 лет Oлександр Клименко был свидетелем миротворческих операций в странах бывшей Югославии, Ливане, Кувейте, Либерии, Кот-д-Ивуаре, Южном Судане, ДР Конго. Есть тысячи фото в его архиве. Он автор альбомов: "Украина. 10 лет Независимости", 2001, "Миротворческая деятельность украинских войск. Первое десятилетие", 2004, "Сквозь огонь и слезы", 2009.