Photographing a year of war and resilience in Ukraine

In January 2022, a woman walks toward what was the only crossing between the rest of Ukraine and the northernmost occupied territory, manned by guards on both sides who check documents in Stanytsia Luhanska, in eastern Ukraine.

Displaced people from eastern Ukraine spill out of a train station in Lviv, in western Ukraine, last March. At this point, more than 2 million people had fled the country as a result of Russia’s invasion.

A girl looks out the window of a train leaving the station in Lviv for Poland after waving farewell to her father last March.

Kids play in a temporary shelter in Poland after fleeing the war in Ukraine last February.

Nadia Kuzhukhar, 27, fled Kyiv with her sister and 2-year-old son, Maksim. They temporarily sheltered in the Church of St. Lazarus in Lviv last March.

Ukrainian journalist-turned-soldier Viktor Dudar’s mother (center) grieves at his grave as he’s laid to rest in Lviv last March.

Soldiers and priests walk into the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul on Tuesday in downtown Lviv carrying a cross and an image of Ivan Koverznev, a Ukrainian lieutenant who was killed by Russian forces in March.

A forensic team looks under the clothing of the Russian soldier to assess the cause of death in April.

Pavlo Rebenko, a Ukrainian war crimes prosecutor, enters the rubble around a house to look at a human skeleton in Moshchun in April.

People ride scooters in Kyiv in April, looking at buildings that were damaged by a Russian missile strike the previous week.

Sandbags surround a statue on a spring day in Kyiv.

Left: People get water to take home since the water is out in Mykolaiv in May. Right: Aid is collected and distributed from what was previously an arts space before the war began in Mykolaiv in May.

Local volunteers share an afternoon meal after completing some work, like cleaning up sidewalks and tending to gardens in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi in May. Villages in southwest Ukraine are generally small and poor. Soviet monuments still decorate the parks. And the area is ethnically varied, with Bulgarian towns, Moldovan, Russian, Ukrainian and others.

Anna Mordiukova gave birth to her baby, Victoria, with a Russian doctor while her village was under occupation in the spring.

Shelling struck a kindergarten in Kharkiv in August, injuring two educators, damaging classrooms and shattering windows.

At a small private school in Dnipro, one of just a handful of schools offering in-person classes in the city, a teacher leads new first-graders to the front of the room in a welcoming ceremony in September.

Volodymyr Artemchuk shovels a path through debris for water to drain out of the village of Demydiv, where Ukrainian forces purposely caused a flood to deter the Russian invasion of Kyiv. In August, months later, residents were still dealing with the repercussions of the flood.

Signs of destruction throughout Izium can be seen after its liberation in September.

Left: Ukrainian investigators gather while they exhume bodies from a mass grave site in Izium in September. Right: Soldiers stand over the exhumed bodies that are lined up in rows in body bags.

A group of Ukrainian soldiers from the Territorial Defense load a rocket under the cover of trees in the Kherson oblast in October. Ukrainian military units and Western military analysts said at the time the approaching winter might force a change in soldiers’ tactics.

An employee at a coal mine in eastern Ukraine travels deep into the mine during the summer.

A soldier stares up at a gaping hole in an apartment building in the aftermath of a Russian missile attack in Dnipro in January.

The coffin of boxing coach Mykhailo Korenovsky arrives at a cemetery where he’s to be laid to rest after he died in the residential building that was hit in Dnipro in January.

Nikolai Pastuchenko crosses himself as he dips in the river in Dnipro as part of a tradition for the Eastern Christian holiday the Epiphany in January.