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Svitlana and Serhiy married in January this year, and their son Marko was born in August. He joined the army the day after the invasion, and he suffered severe injuries on July 27, 2022, in the Kherson region, which resulted in him losing both legs, one above the knee, and eyesight in one eye. They live with Svitlana's parents and dream to buy their own house.
Sofia, a business psychology student, and Vadym, a management student came to training for the first time to prepare for the potential invasion threat from Russia while the situation was still peaceful. They said: «Prepare for the worst, believe in the best» and «Every citizen is responsible for the situation and his family.» Kyiv, Ukraine. February 5, 2022. Photo taken by Oksana Parafeniuk on assignment for the U.S. News & World Report. This photograph is used with permission from Oksana Parafeniuk.
Kateryna, 16, plays with Dominika, 3, at the temporary shelter organized at the Lviv Regional Academic Puppet Theater in Lviv, Ukraine, on March 11, 2022. Kateryna left Kryvyi Rih with her older sister and her mom and stayed in this shelter temporarily before going to Romania.
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Sandbags protect the first floor of the Lviv State Regional Clinical Perinatal Center in Lviv, Ukraine, on March 14, 2022. Russia launched a full-scale war on Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
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Svitlana Zdor, 44, and Iurii Zdor, 42, a married couple from Chernihiv, pose for a portrait in Iurii's hospital room at the Oberih Medical Center in Kyiv, Ukraine on July 31, 2023. Iurii is a war veteran, and he had his leg amputated due to the battlefield injury. He also had severe injuries to his other leg and his abdominal and lungs. In Oberih Medical Center, he is undergoing rehabilitation and some planned surgery. Svitlana and Iurii, who have been married for six years, participated in the Veteran Hub project Resex promotional video, a platform about sex life for wounded warriors. As part of the project, Veteran Hub developed two manuals for men and women veterans that are freely available, which help to establish a relationship with the body and turn trauma into a new sexual experience. Each guide is based on the Veteran Hub team's research on post-injury sexuality.
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Kurkov, Andreĭ. Viĭna hrybiv / perekaz Andrii︠a︡ Kurkova ; rysunky Nikity Kravt︠s︡ova. Kyïv: Rodovid, 2022. Print.
The War of the Mushrooms is a fairy tale, inspired by prominent Ukrainian graphic designer Heorhii Narbut. Drawing inspiration from the eponymous folk tale, a popular classic in Slavic cultures and the subject of Narbut's 1909 publication, Kurkov & Kravtsov's contemporary interpretation reimagines the tale with paintings of scenes from Russia's current war on Ukraine. The first small edition of the book was published by RODOVID in French at the end of 2021.
Serhiy Kopyschyk, 25, and Svitlana Kopyschyk, 25, pose for a portrait in Pokashchiv village, Volyn region, Ukraine on October 3, 2023. Svitlana and Serhiy got married in January this year and their son Marko was born in August. He joined the army the day after the invasion and he suffered severe injuries on July 27, 2022 in Kherson region, which resulted in him losing both legs, one above the knee, and eyesight in one eye. They live with Svitlana's parents and dream to buy their own house.
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Teachers at School Number 5 make dumplings with meat to feed soldiers, volunteers, and displaced people in Vinnytsia, Ukraine on March 1, 2022. Around 35 people, many of them teachers and their families, are currently living at the school because it has a basement bomb shelter.
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