Maksym is holding the hotplate box with both hands, smiling like he just won something. The box is almost as wide as his chest. His little sister stands beside him in a pink jacket, clutching a Hope For Ukraine sign. Their mother holds the baby on her hip. Their...
Maria sat on a red bench, both hands wrapped around a wooden cane. A floral scarf was tied under her chin. She looked up slowly at the volunteer standing beside her. A bag of food sat nearby, waiting. She is 90 years old. She was evacuated from Kupiansk a few months...
Valeriy Marecki’s maroon t-shirt hangs off his frame like a borrowed garment. He speaks slowly, hunched over a table, his deeply lined face carrying the weight of a survival he is still struggling to process. “I was 106 kilograms,” he told the Ukrainian public...
On the evening of June 14, 2026, a Russian drone hit the Kharkiv Art Museum. Emergency responders, museum staff, and Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov formed a line through the building, carrying paintings down the staircases and out into the street to keep them from the...
Before she evacuated her frontline village, a Ukrainian woman sat down and wrote two pages about her dog. She described her personality. Her habits. Her favorite treats. The way she liked to be held. She wanted whoever found her to know exactly who she was. Then she...
Over 120,000 Ukrainians have been wounded, amputated, or permanently disabled defending their country from Russia’s invasion. For many of them, the war didn’t end when they left the front. It continued in a different form: the inability to get out of a...
