Leaving their prosthetics in the stands, veterans enter the ice rink
The ice rink is chilly and alive with sound. It’s much like a regular hockey game, but only coach Serhii Shvets is wearing skates. Frontliner reporters watch the session unfold.
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Each day at the threshold of grief, a priest bids Ukraine’s fallen their final farewell
After the service, the parish priest, Taras Mykhalchuk, promptly changes from red vestments into black. In just fifteen minutes, the church will once again receive a soldier killed on the front line. This time, reporters from Frontliner are there to witness the funeral rite.
‘We’re used to it, always on alert’: life in Izium, 30 kilometers from the front
Izium in the Kharkiv region remains a key military logistics hub, with a steady flow of troops and heavy equipment passing through the city. Frontliner reporters look at daily life in frontline Izium.
Shaping a new life: how a blind veteran builds a business through pottery
Serhii Railian, a veteran of the Russia–Ukraine war, is growing a pottery studio together with his wife. Frontliner reporting explores whether a small craft business can provide a stable livelihood for a veteran’s family.
Love under fire: 3rd Assault Brigade soldiers start a new family on the front lines
Soldiers of the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade traded conventional wedding venues for a torchlit outdoor ceremony. The event, held in the Kharkiv region, was documented by Frontliner.
Invisible trauma of war: how Ukrainian surgeons restore hearing to wounded soldiers
For service members whose hearing was damaged in combat, help is becoming easier to reach. A new microscope at Kyiv’s Hearing Restoration Center is expected to increase the number of complex surgeries, notes a report by Frontliner.
“They said having a baby now is suicide”: raising three children in wartime
On the same day Antonina learned she was pregnant with her third child, doctors diagnosed her 4-year-old son with atypical autism, a condition they said had worsened amid constant shelling. Frontliner tells her story.
Love that keeps life going: Caring for a newborn during war
The birth of her daughter reshaped Mariana’s view of the world. This is a story about motherhood, and about a love that does not allow her to relax for even a moment, in a report by Frontliner.
Motherhood under shelling: Raising two sons alone in Kharkiv
At night, Yuliia Yatlova runs down the stairs from her ninth-floor apartment, carrying her 3-year-old son. She tells Frontliner why she no longer feels safe at home, how difficult it is to find a daycare in a city under fire, and why putting on makeup has become part of her daily routine.
Between tradition and wartime reality: Malanka near the Romanian border
In the border village of Krasnoilsk in Ukraine’s Chernivtsi region, the Malanka festival feels like a parallel world existing alongside life shaped by war. Frontliner reports on how Malanka was celebrated in Krasnoilsk.