Although the city hasn't seen any ground combat since March 2022, anti-tank defenses are still present in every street - Kyiv, 2022
For Eugeny, a woman we met on the train to the capital, “Ukrainians live as if these were their last days, and that's why they're making the most of it."
The day the invasion began, the whole family of Jaroslav was in the house. Through his window, the father of the house can still see the impact of the missiles that fell on his garden - Horenka, 2022
Of all his neighbors, only his house is still intact. A few yards further on, his grandmother's house has been completely flattened by a missile - Horenka, 2022
Jaroslav's daughter Barbara has been traumatized since the start of the war. Only ten days after the start of the invasion, the little girl was sent away from Kyiv, far from the fighting - Horenka, 2022
Life is slowly returning to Horenka. Barbara's grandmother Ludmilla takes her granddaughter for a walk every day, now that the army has cleared the entire area of mines - Horenka, 2022
Dimitri (left), Eugeny (center) and Ludmilla (right), talk about the time when Ukrainian soldiers were welcomed into the family home. The grandparents did everything they could to help the soldiers, spending days in their basement during the bombings - Horenka, 2022
Horenka is a village on the outskirts of Kyiv, close to Bucha and Irpin. Although the village was never occupied, it was once the Ukrainian army's rear base. All that remains of the war are demolished buildings and lost souls. Some remained, without fail, sometimes at the cost of their lives - Horenka, 2022
Between Gostomel and Kyiv, the town committee decided to enlarge the military cemetery. Ten months after the start of the war, the General Staff estimates that between 10,000 and 13,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died.
Olena and Olga are two teachers from the village of Khakovka, in the Kherson region. The Russian army arrived very early in Khakovka, on February 27, three days after the start of the war.
The school closed in the days following the invasion. Unable to flee, they decided not to abandon their children.
Olena and Olga continued to teach in Ukrainian, from a distance, risking their lives. Today in Kyiv, the two women log on every day behind their computers: “no child has given up, they're happy to be able to go to school, if not what would they do?”
Before the occupation, Olena was deputy headmistress of a school in Khakovka. She now teaches children aged between ten and seventeen - Kyiv, 2023
Unwilling to give in to the Russian education program, they experienced horror. Olena hands me a portrait of Viktor. P, school principal. This man, tortured for over three weeks, has always refused to obey the occupying administration. He has been missing since his capture - Kyiv, 2023
Ukrainian teachers received a lot of help from the government. Unable to resume face-to-face schooling, thousands of computers were donated to those remaining in the country - Kyiv, 2023
Maria* has run a hotel in downtown Dnipro for over five years. Since February 24 and the start of the Russian invasion, she has never closed it. She has seen countless journalists, soldiers and volunteers seeking rest during this conflict - Dnipro, 2023
Alexander and his wife live in Nikopol. They asked UAnimals to relocate their cats to a safer area, away from the front line - Nikopol, 2023
La ville de Nikopol se trouve juste en face de la ligne de front, seul le Dniepr sépare les habitants de l'armée russe - Nikopol, 2023
Petya, the association's volunteer, specializes in frontline rescue missions - Nikopol, 2023
Arriving in Ukraine the day after the invasion, Petya had no connection with the country. She just wanted to help. Since February, she's been going back and forth to the front - Nikopol, 2023
After a three-hour drive, the animals arrive at Kryvyï Rih. Petya (right) is greeted by shelter manager Ruslana (left) - Kryvyï Rih, 2023
Ruslana opened her shelter as soon as the war started, she didn't want to leave all these animals on the street - Kryvyï Rih, 2023
Many of these animals were taken in by Ruslana at the start of the conflict. They know the stress and fear of bombing - Nikopol, 2023
The shelter houses around 40 cats and 25 dogs - Kryvyï Rih, 2023
