One Day In
Six Ukrainian cities. Twelve days. The war, seen from the inside.
EXPLORE THE PROJECTRECOGNITION
Paszport Polityki 2022 — Digital Culture
"For skillfully combining traditional high-quality journalism with the latest digital media technologies to tell stories about the contemporary world and dramatic events like the war in Ukraine. For 'One Day In'."— Jury citation, Paszport Polityki 2022
INMA Global Media Awards 2023 — Finalist
Best Use of Visual Journalism and Storytelling Tools
One of 775 projects from 40 countries.
Raw 360° footage from the field.
A DAY AT A TIME.
A CITY AT A TIME.
One Day In was built around a simple but difficult premise: go to six Ukrainian cities that Russia was regularly attacking, spend a day in each, and show what life looked like from the inside.
Not evacuation. Not battlefield. Not the strategic map. Instead: a university still open, a theatre with a bombed roof, a market where people argue over prices, a metro station that doubles as a shelter, a beach that still has visitors.
The project used VR/360 technology so that audiences could move through these spaces on a smartphone — not read about them, but stand inside them.
6
Ukrainian cities under attack
12
days of field production
~4,000 km
traveled across Ukraine
12
reporters from Poland and Ukraine
"Images of destroyed places have been with us since 24 February. What we rarely see is daily life — how Ukraine adapts to a situation that keeps changing. Through 'One Day In' we wanted to show the contrast. And give people some form of interaction — a feeling of being there."
— Jakub Górnicki
SIX CITIES. SIX DAYS.
SIX DIFFERENT WARS.
THE ROUTE
Kyiv → Odesa → Mykolaiv → Kryvyi Rih → Dnipro → Zaporizhzhia · nearly 4,000 km
WHAT THE TEAM DOCUMENTED
Kyiv
- Maidan Nezalezhnosti
- metro station
- park bridge
- Shevchenko Park
Odesa
- Opera house
- beach
- market
- park
- Ekaterynynska Square
- promenade
Mykolaiv
- University
- bombed Hotel Mykolaiv
- Drama Theatre
Kryvyi Rih
- Kvartal 95
- shelter
- People's House
- Mershavtseva Park
- Apostolove
Dnipro
- Market
- city centre
- ATO Museum
- destroyed cafés
- rocket impact sites
Zaporizhzhia
- Hotel Sunrise
- destroyed residential buildings
- city centre
THE FORMAT: 360° ON A SMARTPHONE
Raw 360° footage.
YOU ONLY NEED A SMARTPHONE.
Each city episode was filmed and published in VR/360 format. No headset required — mobile viewers could tap, tilt, and rotate through streets, shelters, theatres, and markets in real time.
The decision to prioritize mobile was intentional. Ukraine was being covered by a global press corps with large production setups. Outriders chose the smallest possible footprint: a team that could move fast, work with local journalists who already knew the city, and publish within hours.
FROM THE TEAM
"What I liked was not just the technological approach, but also that the main characters of the project were Ukrainian journalists living and working in the places we reached. They created the narrative and showed us what, in their opinion, best illustrated the wartime reality of their cities."— Piotr Andrusieczko, Outriders
"The biggest discovery for me was how much all these cities are alive. I expected to see an almost-destroyed city with no people on the street. Instead I saw bustling markets and something resembling short traffic jams. These cities are still living despite all the tragedies they have faced. Understanding that complexity was worth the risk."— Serhij Kolesnikow, Outriders
HOW IT WAS COVERED
Polskie Radio / FOCUS
Outriders named among the winners of Paszport Polityki 2022 for the "One Day In" project. Featured in the English-language culture programme as an example of innovative Polish journalism covering the war in Ukraine.
ICFJ / IJNet
"Outriders' story that has had the biggest impact is its project about life in Kramatorsk — and before that, 'One Day In,' which showed how Ukrainian cities adapted to war through mobile journalism and immersive video."
INMA Global Media Awards
Gazeta.pl nominated in "Best Use of Visual Journalism and Storytelling Tools" for the project created with Outriders and Ukrayina.pl. One of 775 projects from 40 countries.
"We didn't want visiting journalists telling the story. We accompanied local reporters who never left. That was the point."
— Jakub Górnicki