Even when Putin’s armies retreat, they leave behind invisible terrors. 

Ministering to civilians and soldiers as Russian bombs fall.

Emergency workers learn battlefield medicine on the job.

With death always just a Russian missile away, Ukrainians strive to be their true selves.

Pizza is the world’s go-to chow — even in a war zone. 

The western city was supposed to be far from Russia’s most dangerous assaults.

Railway workers face missile attacks, frightened passengers, and traveling through devastated towns with “iron nerves and smiling with 32 teeth.”

New York’s Ukrainian community refuses to give up, but as the war goes on, support is harder to find. 

Some of those stepping up to battle the Russian invasion come from unlikely backgrounds.

Young Ukrainian volunteers are working with refugees all across their devastated country