In this talk, I explore reverberations (Navaro et al., 2021b) of the Russian state violence against Ukraine from the beginning of 2014 until the present day. Following on previous work that advocates relational approaches to studies of semiotic landscapes (Peck, Stroud, and Williams, 2019), and drawing on collected ethnographic materials during 2019 and 2017, I reflect on the nature of harm to which people and places become exposed. Given the omnipresence of violence in its various guises, I suggest the concept of mutual vulnerability as a heuristic tool to consider vulnerability relationally and as inherently implicating place. In this way, my talk contributes to the theme of the conference on dis-comforting encounters with violence, in an attempt to grasp their multiple meanings and implications for how we do and think about, but also get affected by, the research settings pierced by violence.