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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‘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.
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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.
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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.
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A step toward a new life: women from prison join the war effort
Formerly incarcerated women have joined the military and are now serving on the Zaporizhzhia front. Frontliner followed their journey from the correctional facility to their first combat deployment and explored why they see the army as a second chance.
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Artillery under drones: holding the Pokrovsk front
Along the boundary between Ukraine’s Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions, Russian forces continue efforts to push the front line forward. The Pokrovsk sector remains among the most intense areas of fighting. Frontliner reports on how Ukrainian artillery operates under these conditions.
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Dnipro Mechnikov Hospital, a place where people are brought back to life
❗️SENSITIVE CONTENT❗️ Mechnikov Dnipro Regional Clinical Hospital is the largest medical facility in eastern Ukraine providing surgical and stabilization care. It welcomes critically wounded soldiers from all over the frontline. Since 2022, the hospital has treated 28,000 troops. The wounded are evacuated from Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, and Kherson regions [where the toughest battles […]
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On the edge of Pisky. Or how displaced families keep going on
The Soniachnyi neighborhood is located on the outskirts of southern Zaporizhzhia, as the modular town of “On the Edge of Pisky” peeks through it. Germany funded this project in 2015 to temporarily accommodate internally displaced persons from the occupied territories and the frontline. Since then, the town’s population has been constantly changing—some people find a […]
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“Happy Childhood” in Kharkiv. The dance ensemble changed the bombed halls into a basement
Kharkiv has been switching to its new life underground for almost two years of Russia’s full-scale war. Concerts, performances, and even school classes are held in basements and subway stations. Kharkiv children also get extracurricular education underground. Young dancers of the Happy Childhood dance ensemble, who used to watch the Freedom Square from their ballet halls before the war, moved to the basement.
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The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers creates an online archive “Photo Chronicles of War”
“Our goal is to preserve the history of the resistance of the Ukrainian people for future generations and bring together key documentary photo projects related to the events of the full-scale invasion and its consequences on a single platform,” said Mstyslav Chernov, President of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers. Follow the […]
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“I dream that I can see again”. Blind Ukrainian soldier fights to regain life shattered by Russian drone strike
The true number of Ukrainian soldiers who have lost their sight in the Russo-Ukrainian war remains unknown. However, rehabilitation programs for the blind report a growing demand from veterans. Frontliner spent a day with Denys Abdulin, gaining insight into his new reality after the soldier lost his eyesight a year and a half ago in […]
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Gen Camp: healing the invisible wounds of Ukrainian children
What happens to children after they lose a family member in a war. What if they lose multiple family members and home in a single strike? If they’ve watched a parent get murdered as they tried to escape? How does a child learn to live with what they’ve seen and experienced? Generation Ukrainian started […]
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“I gave the children just a normal day.” – Meet Pimbo, the Italian clown returning smiles to Ukraine’s frontline kids
Marco Rodari’s signature act is making giant bubbles. He creates enormous, magical orbs and launches them over his young audience. The children go wild, jumping up and down, squealing in delight as they try to pop the bubbles before they float away. For over nine months, this Italian performer has brought joy and laughter to […]
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Chancing one’s arm: wounded civilians remain in Avdiivka
Avdiivka, Ukraine – After being treated for near-fatal wounds from a shell explosion at the hospital in Myrnohrad, Viktor made up his mind and walked 50 kilometers back to his besieged hometown, Avdiivka. He casually points to scars on his legs, torso and even face. His body is marred by shrapnel wounds. However, that’s nothing […]
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The Aidar Battalion’s Guerilla Grad, a makeshift multiple rocket launcher. War and summer outside Bakhmut: A Photo Report
This makeshift modification of the Grad has certain advantages over the standard variant. The cost of converting a civilian SUV into a multiple rocket launcher is only 160 thousand UAH. The Guerilla Grad has a range of up to 25 kilometers (15.5 miles). It also has high target destruction accuracy, even compared to the standard […]
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Kamianka: a bird’s eye view of a destroyed village near Izium
Kamianka is a village near Izium in the Kharkiv region that was literally wiped off the map by the russians. There is not a single house left standing. The formerly rich farming village has been caught in the crossfire since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, as it lies in a valley between two heights. […]
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A Terrorist attack on the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant: Dnipropetrovsk region is dying without water
After the Russians blew up the dam of the Kakhovka reservoir, the riverside of Dnipro became a site of environmental disaster. While one part of the region is being flooded, another part is being destroyed by the lack of water. Immediately after the terrorist attack, the level of the upstream Dnipro began to drop rapidly, […]
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Russia Ukraine War / Donbas Frontliner photo diary June 2023
The Russian-Ukrainian war in the photos of our Frontliner reporters. Previous photo diary / Попередній фотощоденник: Russia Ukraine War / Donbas Frontliner photo diary May 2023 Follow us: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Telegram
