Sofia, 24, who goes by Sofa (no last named given—the military doesn’t allow soldiers to give their last names), a soldier in the Ukrainian Army. Mariinka, Donetsk Oblast. Ukraine. August 28, 2021. (...)
A soldier on the front line near Avdiivka, Ukraine. August 30, 2021. © Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum Photos
Every day at the Lviv Central railway station, thousands of refugees from all over Ukraine board trains that will take them to Poland. Lviv. March 12, 2022. © Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos
“I saw the fear and confusion in their eyes, and I realized I could help these people,” said Dmytro Plaksin, who gave private music lessons around Mariupol. He is now in Kyiv. Ukraine. 2022. © Paol (...)
Victoriia Dubovytska, whose husband was in Poland, took shelter in the theater with their two young children. She currently lives in the Cherkasy region of Ukraine. 2022. © Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum P (...)
Elyzaveta Fatayeva and her mother, Oksana, survivors of the Mariupol Theater attack, now live in a suburb of Frankfurt. Germany. 2022. © Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos
Sergiy Zabogonskyi, an actor, and his wife, Evgenia Zabogonska, a lighting designer at the Mariupol theater, took shelter there for weeks and organized teams of volunteers. They survived the Russia (...)
Dmytro Plaksin still has the key to the basement dressing room that he called home before the Mariupol Theater bombing. Uzhhorod, Ukraine. 2022. © Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos
Yevgen Hrebenetskyi, who worked at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, now lives in Zaporizhzhia. Ukraine. 2022. © Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos
Vira Lebedynska, who was the musical director at the Mariupol theater, is among those who have moved to Uzhhorod. Ukraine. 2022. © Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos
Nataliia Hrebenetska took shelter in the Mariupol theater with her husband and son during the siege. She was in the opera box where they lived when the bombs hit. She now lives in Zaporizhzhia, abo (...)
In an undisclosed location in the Kharkiv Oblast, traumatized soldiers undergo various types of therapy before going back to the frontline. Ukraine. March 17, 2023. © Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos
A stabilization point of the 37th Marine brigade near the front lines in the Donetsk Oblast. Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. July 14, 2023. © Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos
A boy kneels on the side of the road as a funeral procession of a fallen soldier passes by. Kulychkiv, Ukraine. May 2023. © Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos
An elderly woman boards a bus to leave the town of Kostyantynivka, in Donetsk Oblast. Kostyantynivka. Ukraine. 2023. © Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos
An apartment building in Kramatrosk was devastated after being struck by a Russian airstrike. Ukraine. March 14, 2023. © Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos
Ukraine. August 15, 2022. © Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos
Ukrainian territorial defense operates in the front-line Saltivka neighbourhood. Kharkiv. March 30, 2022. © Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos
People take a train from Zaporizhzhia towards Lviv after having fled fighting in Mariupol and other besieged areas. Zaporizhzhia. Ukraine. March 23, 2022. © Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos
A woman that was injured during intense shelling in Mariupol is being treated at the Zaporizhzhia regional hospital. Zaporizhzhia. March 24, 2022. © Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos
Residents of the Saltivka neighbourhood live in the basements of their apartment houses. Kharkiv. March 30, 2022. © Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos
In Lviv, young men mourned their fellow soldiers who died in the Russian attack on a military training center, which killed at least 35 people. Ukraine. March 15, 2022. © Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Pho (...)
Volodimir (34), a soldier in Ukrainian army with the father and fiancée of a soldier who was killed in the same incident. He was injured when the truck he was riding in was rocketed in Pisky on Aug (...)
Sofia (24) goes by Sofa (no last name given—the military doesn’t allow soldiers to give their last names). In a front-line position near the city of Mariinka. Donbas. Mariinka, Donetsk Oblast. Ukra (...)
Near Mariinka. Donbas. Donetsk Oblast. August 28, 2021. © Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos
Dmytro Murantsev, Elyzaveta’s boyfriend, is now in Uzhhorod, on the opposite side of the country at the base of the Carpathian Mountains. Some of the Mariupol theater’s actors and staff members hav (...)
