People who have just become homeless cry out near the burning buildings. Frontliner witnessed how people in Kramatorsk react to losing their homes due to Russian bomb strikes.
With one swift stroke of a sharp tool through the colored engobe on wet clay, Rustem Skybin draws a clear line. Frontliner visited the potter's workshop to see his signature technique.
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.
Oleksii Yukov was killed on Aug. 5, 2026, when his car struck a mine in Lyman hromada, Donetsk region. He was 40. For more than 25 years, Yukov searched for the dead, first traveling to the battlefields of past wars.
In Kyiv, Dmytro Kruk from the Donetsk region participates in a rally supporting captured Azov fighters. Yet only recently, he was being frightened with stories about them at the Russian border as he escaped from temporarily occupied Khrestivka.
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
