Occupied Oleshky in Kherson region is worn down by hunger. Frontliner journalists set out to find out how people in Oleshky are holding on and who helps deliver the parcels.
A serviceman of the State Border Guard Service, killed the enemy with the same weapon the occupiers had used to shoot the soldiers of his unit. Frontliner met “Pele” immediately after he returned from his position.
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.
As soon as armored vehicles appear near the gray zone, the “safari” begins. Frontliner looked into whether there is any future for combat vehicles that Ukraine rarely deploys to the front line due to the lethal risks.
She spends hours making paper flowers before immersing them in wax. Frontliner witnessed the making of this traditional Poltava accessory.
Hundreds of kilometers from the Russian rear, three Spartan Brigade soldiers arm a US-made Hornet kamikaze strike drone. Frontliner reporters saw firsthand how Spartan Brigade soldiers conduct middle-strike operations against Russian forces.
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.
A Frontliner documentary series about the hands reviving Ukrainian crafts and weaving cultural memory back into daily life.
