Their hands burn from the rough stems, the intense heat makes it hard to breathe, and their backs throb with exhaustion. Frontliner saw how artisans in the Dnipropetrovsk region transform a green field into traditional amulets.
The weaver's fingers settle on a skein of soft yellow. The choice is made: this kots will be blue and yellow. Frontliner watched a third-generation kots weaver bring a forgotten craft back to life.
Rough, cracked hands, white with clay and weathered by years of pottery, knead the pliable clay. Frontliner witnesses firsthand how raw clay is transformed into a traditional lembyk in a Poltava workshop.
She spends hours making paper flowers before immersing them in wax. Frontliner witnessed the making of this traditional Poltava accessory.
This is childhood for thousands of children in front-line cities. They live in bombed-out buildings or in basements, as their parents chose not to evacuate from the front line. Frontliner explains why police still can't help these children, even though a law meant to solve this problem has been enacted.
Evacuation vehicles, however, have no choice but to travel this route. Even seriously wounded soldiers ask the driver to stop when they see the canteen along the highway, hoping for a home-cooked meal. In a new Frontliner report, explore why this place matters so much to soldiers, and how a field canteen operates on the edge of a kill zone
An infantryman lost everything he had earned during three months on the front line — 460,000 hryvnias — gambling at online casinos. Frontliner reports on how gambling addiction is being tackled on the front line — illegally, but effectively.
Roughly 80% of the drone-dropped munitions the Taifun special purpose unit uses to eliminate occupying forces are homemade, crafted in their own laboratory. The soldiers explained to Frontliner reporters exactly what can be made from these materials.
A childhood curiosity about her veteran uncle’s silence grew into a professional mission to reveal the true cost of war, even when that understanding becomes hard to bear. Frontliner reporter Alina Yevych explores what drove her to witness the war firsthand.
In Kostiantynivka, Russians are conducting a safari on civilians, with drones hovering over houses and basements for days, waiting for someone to step outside. This Frontliner report explores why they remain in such a lethal zone.
