Refugees fled in their thousands with whatever they could carry

Mother and child wait in line in Medyka Poland to board buses to shelters in Przemysl

An elderly refugee searches for food in boxesof supplies left by the hundreds at border crossings by volunteers

A refugee mother and her children embrace on the platform at Przemsyl railway station as they wait for a train to Warsaw.

An elderly amputee refugee at Przemsyl station

A defiant refugee child waits with his family in Przemysl for a train to Warsaw

Inside the main terminal in Przemsyl

A refugee woman gets some sleep where she can in Warsaw main railway station. The entire station had become a makeshift shelter

Night bus from Medyka to shelters in Przemysl. The buses ran 24 - 7 ferrying refugees who came throughout the night.

A child on one of the night buses from Medyka

Destroyed bridge in Bucha

A bullet-riddled civilian car in Bucha

A displaced refugee seeking help from a Ukrainian military unit.

Destroyed mall in Bucha

A burned out van in Bucha

Valya returned from Vinnitsya to find her home in Irpen destroyed

Civilian car run over by a tank in Irpen

Destroyed car in Irpen

Amid the destruction inn the cities the Ukrainian flag flies defiantly everywhere

Igor amid the ruins of his hotel in Mykolaiev

A survivor of the rocket attack on Serhiivka surveys the damage outside her window.

Made homeless by the attack on Serhiivka, this woman told us an emotional story of surviving World War II as a small child, only to be suffering the same destruction at the end of her life

Gleb was a student celebrating a graduatrion in a hotel in Serhiivka when it was struck by two rockets. Many of his friends perished.

These woman survived the destruction of their apartment building in Serhiivka

This young woman almost lost an eye in Serhiivka

Shrapnel-peppered legs painted with antiseptic

A kindergarten teacher survived the destruction of her home in Serhiivka

Another survivor pf the July 2022 attack on Serhiivka.

A volunteer medic gives checkups to shelter residents under Russian shellfire in Chasiv yar

A young soldier helps comfort a crying baby

A young soldier surveys the damage to a ruined theater in his hometown of Chasiv Yar

Shelter residents in Chasiv Yar who refuse to evacuate are having supplies delivered by the military administration.

Drone unit near the front

Drone is recovered after depoloying its payload

Drone unit relocates after deployed an armed drone. Russians will try and triangulate their position from the signals from the drone controller and bring fire down on them. The drone pilots are high-value targets.

A drone pilot takes a rest break.

At a horse farm outside Mykolaiev a soldier with PTSD takes part in a highly successful therapy program run by volunteers.

A young man at the wall of heroes in Kiev

Lana Nicole Nyland of the volunteer organization Ukrainian Patriot

A resident of a shelter in Chasiv Yar living under constant Russian shellfire

A woman sits outside her apartment building in Kharkiv. Shelled in the first hours of the war, she is the only remaining tenant in her building. She lives without power or running water.

A Kharkiv apartment building resident

A rescue firefighter in Izyum

In a small town outside Mykolaiev the residents came ouyt of their homes by the dozens to pay their respects as the funeral procession for a local soldier passed slowly through the streets. Most knelt as the casket passed by them, and the grief was palpable.

A young woman weeps as the casket passes her

Respect for a fallen soldier

A woman honors the soldier as his funeral procession passes

A military cemetery in Lviv