For decades since the Chornobyl accident, Halyna Voloshyna has been trying to prove that Chornobyl is not just an Exclusion Zone, but her home. She shared her story of life in isolation, and a city that never fully recovered, with Frontliner reporters.
Ambulances arrive at the hospital, and emaciated people are carefully transferred and placed into wheelchairs. This is how, during the 72nd prisoner of war exchange on the eve of Easter, 182 Ukrainians returned from Russian captivity.
Nearly 3,000 animals live at the Kyiv Zoo. Frontliner went behind the scenes to see how the animal park manages to keep so many animals warm during the winter.
The threat posed by enemy drones has made reaching wounded soldiers nearly impossible. Frontliner spoke with Yana Zinkevych, the founder of the Hospitallers, about these and other challenges facing volunteers under current conditions.
After Russia’s extensive attacks on energy infrastructure, thousands of buildings in Kyiv were left without heating. Frontliner reporters went out to report on the conditions people are living in and the places they can turn for help.
Russian shelling in Kyiv has left dozens of loved ones and neighbors dead under the rubble – losses that cannot be let go – as well as countless destroyed apartments.
In Kyiv, veterans are training in humanitarian demining to find their place in civilian life while applying their combat experience and skills. Learning to become a deminer after being wounded and leaving the Armed Forces allows them to continue serving in a new way – helping with Ukraine’s recovery.
At the National Military Memorial Cemetery, which opened on August 29, 2025, more than one hundred soldiers have already been laid to rest. Frontliner reporters observed the ongoing construction of this site and learned about the challenges Ukrainians face in burying their fallen defenders.
Radiation, wild animals, and “Shaheds.” At night near the ghost city of Prypiat, a mobile fire group from the 25th Brigade stands guard under a sky where threats can appear without warning.
Service members and veterans are excavating the Trypillian culture, thereby reclaiming themselves. They are rehabilitating through archaeology near Lehedzyne in Cherkasy Oblast.
