Too quiet for comfort: on the frontline in Ukraine – a photo essay

Photojournalist Guillaume Herbaut's latest visit to Ukraine reveals a disturbing silence on the frontline as international posturing ramps up tensions and diplomats work to avert a full-scale conflict

Since 2014, the French photographer Guillaume Herbaut has been going to Ukraine several times a year to cover the war in a country divided between those turned toward Europe, and those drawn to Russia.

A Ukrainian soldier walks in a trench in the former Zenit military airbase. The base has become one of the Ukrainian army's positions on the frontline