Mariupol, Ukraine: A model city of 'new Russia'

Since 2015, photographer Gabriele Micalizzi has been documenting the Donbas region from the Russian side of the front line, an area where Moscow enforces very strict access conditions for journalists. In November, he secured permission to enter Donetsk Oblast, a region of occupied Ukraine, and traveled to Mariupol, a city destroyed by Russian forces in 2022, which has since been colonized and rebuilt in record time.