As Russia’s unprovoked, full-scale invasion enters its third year, Ukrainians are confronting the war’s devastation with resilience and strength.
Across the country, schools are open, fields are tilled and communities are rebuilding.
Ukrainians are determined in the face of Russia’s aggression.
However, carrying on under daily bombardment has come at a tremendous cost to Ukrainians.
Although Russia has damaged or destroyed more than 3,790 schools, children are still learning. In Kharkiv, schools relocated underground for safety.
Students continue their education in classrooms set up in metro stations and other bomb shelters.
Russia’s war has pushed more than 7.1 million Ukrainians into poverty. But people adapt. In Zaporizhzhia, fashion designers turn their talents to making body armor for soldiers.
Russian mines and explosives have ruined millions of hectares of farmland. Now, as Ukrainians reclaim land from mines and bombs, farmers in Dnipropetrovsk region collect harvests … carefully.
Russia’s indiscriminate attacks on civilians have destroyed nearly 1.5 million homes. Across the country, Ukrainians are coming together to rebuild.
People still get married.
And even when bombs force maternity wards into basements, Ukrainians look to the future.