"Kiev, the Russian invasion has begun".
The book Photoansa 2022, the annual volume that collects the best images taken by photographers, opens with the news, transmitted by the ANSA correspondent in the Ukrainian capital, of the start of the conflict that continues to keep Europe in suspense. of the agency to describe the year that is closing.
It could only be the destruction and death brought about by the Russian aggression that opened the collection.
Shots that also tell of the great escape of refugees from the horror, while on the other side of the border, but also in the Ukrainian capital itself, life goes on anyway.
"The announced war explodes suddenly in the night of Kiev, then it seems to never want to stop - writes the president of the
ANSA Giulio Anselmi - Page after page, image after image is entangled with its load of blood, pain, death, fear.
Of fear above all, because after eight months of fighting, triggered by Russian aggression, we still don't know where the world will end up". Next to the cover theme, the images that describe the events that characterized 2022, including the birth of the government of Giorgia Meloni, the first led by a woman in the history of Italy.
The book will be presented on Monday 12 December at 5.30pm.
The event will be streamed on ANSA.it.
Guests include the president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa and the president of Confindustria Carlo Bonomi.
To talk about the war, the Ukrainian ambassador in Italy Yaroslav Melnyk and the Ukrainian journalist Nataliya Kudryk.
To retrace a year of sporting successes, the Minister of Sport Andrea Abodi and Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi, the first woman to referee in Serie A. Representing the world of entertainment will be Cesare Cremonini, while Federico Palmaroli, author of The most beautiful phrases by Osho, will enrich the evening with his irony.