Anastasia sits on her mothers lap after arriving at the Poland border the first week of March, just a week after the Russian invasion.

A child from Kyiv sits on her mothers lap inside a refugee transport van in Przemyśl, Poland.

A young girl arrives at the Poland border in early March from eastern Ukraine.

Refugees from Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine sleep in the backseat of a car after arriving at the Medyka border crossing.

A A boy holds a world globe inside his schools gymnasium. The school provided shelter for the entire village during the Russian occupation. Many of the residents who took shelter at the school were not able to leave for 7 weeks.

The sounds of artillery were constant in the Kyivskyi District of Kharkiv, and in the early morning hours, a missile would fly from Belgorod, Russia landing only meters from the home of Alexander and his wife. It’s a short flight path, 30 miles. Slabs of cement crumbled as the building shook, and sitting on a chair in the hallway was an elderly women who was crushed from a falling refrigerator. Alexander and his wife still live in their home. They have worked hard to make repairs, but not enough to keep the cold January air at bay.

Alexander uses a flashlight to navigate a bomb shelter during an air siren in his Kyivskyi District apartment.

Victor Kravchenko stands in his Borodyanka home after it was liberated from Russian soldiers. During the Russian occupation, Victor was returning to his home after searching for water when he was stopped at gun point by Russian soldiers. As others watched, Victor was forced to remove his clothing so they could search his body for Nazi tattoos. Victor stood in front of his home cold, frightened, and humiliated as Russian occupiers inspected his body.

Victor Kravchenko walks through his Borodyanka home after it was liberated from Russian soldiers. Like Victor, many residents in Borodyanka are living in apartments without walls, windows, electricity, and running water.

On the morning of February 24, 2022, Russian Airborne forces invaded Hostomel Airfield and quickly occupied Military Town, less than a kilometer away. An estimated 150 residents of Military Town lived under Russian occupation, including Galina, a grandmother of 3. On March 13, 2022, a Russian missile ripped through Galina's living room apartment knocking her unconscious. As fire quickly spread, she was pulled from the burning building and brought to the shelter. She died three days later and was buried in the apartment yard by her neighbors.

Platon and Matvey Hudnya stand in their living room in Military Town, just a few KM from the Hostomel Airfield. A Russian missile destroyed their apartment, killing their Grandmother Galina. She was buried by neighbors in the apartment yard.

Valentina spent more than 7 months in occupied Lyman. “I want the people to see what they did to us. I want to share everything. Our previous president is Putin’s friend and the head of the Russian church blessed this war. They killed us! We had to hide in the basement for more than 5 months. We were cold and hungry. I wish the head of the Russian church to be cold, hungry, and suffer as we did! They mocked us. There’s an elderly man who is blind without food or water. His home has no windows. He’s hungry! Please, someone help him!”

Elderly couple in the streets of Lyman, Ukraine just a few days after liberation. According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 4.2 million elderly people are in need of humanitarian assistance in Ukraine. Those aged 60 or over make up almost a quarter of the Ukrainian population. The UN's Human Rights Office states that between February and September, the over-60s accounted for 34% of civilians killed.

Alex Moskalets stands on the second floor of a local high school in Kharkiv, Ukraine after Russian artillery and missiles destroyed it.

Shoes and backpacks are left in place from the February 23, 2022 school day. Students and teachers were unaware there would be a Russian invasion the following day, and would not return to the school.

"Hello. We were forced." A message left on a classroom wall by Russian soldiers at a school in Hostomel, Ukraine.

Russia has seeded the fields with anti-personnel mines throughout Ukraine. Since the start of the war, more than 250,000 mines have been scattered in fields. While Ukraine is apart of the Ottawa Treaty, which bans anti-personnel mines, Russia is not. However, The UN Convention on Conventional Weapons and the Geneva Conventions prohibits Russia from using these types of mines; mines designed to kill and maim. Russia has deployed thousands of new mines called butterflies which are incredibly deceptive and seem harmless, but cause horrific casualties.

Storage area, Chernihiv, Ukraine.

Destroyed cars from Butcha are stacked just outside of town.

Walking through the Saltivka District in the northeastern part of Kharkiv, it’s nearly impossible to find a building that has not been touched by destruction. Streets are pockmarked with craters, destroyed apartment blocks line the sky, and most residents have lost everything, including life.

The Saltivka District, a large residential area located in the northeastern region of Kharkiv was home to more than 400,000 residents before the war. Less than half remain today. 28% of the estimated 6.8 million internally displaced persons in Ukraine are from the Kharkiv Region. Inside a Saltivka apartment left abandoned as a result of a Russian missile attack early in the war.

Trinity church, which was used as a field hospital by Russian forces in the village of Mala Komyshuvakha outside Izium.

Russian artillery boxes, mattresses, medical supplies, and food litter the floor of Trinity Church which was built in 1826.

Danilo, a lawyer from Kyiv sits outside an undisclosed non-profit hospital treating Ukrainian soldiers in the Carpathian Mountain Region. The hospital (BRACC) is treating the whole person; mind, body, and soul.

Danilo visits rescued horses from the Donesk Region at the stable where he rides. BRACC provides an opportunity for soldiers to participate in weekly outings such as equestrian therapy, painting classes, theatre, and outdoor education in the Carpathian Mountains.

Danilo, injured in Bakhmut, is thankful for the opportunity he has at BRACC. Many soldiers find their way here with the help of Battalion commanders. Doctors and medical staff communicate directly with front line soldiers, and those who are stable enough for the half day journey west, find themselves at one of the most premier hospitals in Ukraine.

Andrew who goes by his codename Odesa, received severe injuries to his right leg and left hand, with a partial hand amputation. His unit, the AZOV came under heavy artillery fire in Bakhmut where they lost several soldiers. Andrew bounced from one hospital to another seeking treatment. He grew tired of not receiving adequate care. After speaking with his commander, it was recommended that he check himself out of the hospital and travel to BRACC, a non-profit surgical hospital treating soldiers in the Carpathian Mountain Region. Upon checkout, Andrew received a clean bill of health and arrived at BRACC with an untreated shrapnel wound on his right leg, and a partial hand amputation on his right.

Thousands gathered in Kyiv to honor 27-year-old Dmytro Kotsiubailo, known by his call sign “Da Vinci.” Dmytro was the youngest commander in the Ukrainian Army; he was killed on March 7th near Bakhmut.

Dmytro's mother is treated by paramedics at her sons funeral service inside St. Michaels Monastery in Kyiv.

In 2014 at the age of 18, Dmytro participated at the Maidan Revolution, also know as the Revolution of Dignity. He joined a volunteer unit separate from the Ukraine military after Russia invaded the Donbas Region. Dmytro fought some of the most difficult battles in eastern Ukraine. Last year, President Zelensky awarded the title of Hero to Dmytro, the highest honor in Ukraine.

Rescue workers inspect a school in Izyum that was being used to house Russian soldiers. It was destroyed by Ukrainian forces during the liberation of Izyum.

A few days after the town of Izium was liberated from Russian soldiers, Oleksandr Ivanovych stands in front of a school where he watched Russian soldiers force local residents to load the bodies of the dead into the back of a military truck to be taken to a mass grave at the edge of the city.

447 Ukrainians were exhumed in Izium, many showing signs of violent deaths, including torture. Genitals were removed, children were found wrapped in blankets, hands were bound together, and the smell of death still lingers in the wet, damp pine forest.

The belongings of Valentina are discovered wrapped in a plastic bag before she is removed from a mass grave in Izium, Ukraine. She was killed by Russian soldiers on 5.15.22. She was 84 years old.

Volunteers work to remove bodies from a mass grave in Izium, Ukraine shortly after the city was liberated.

Bodies from a mass grave in Izium wait to be transferred to the Kharkiv city morgue for examination.

Actress Anne Yaremchuk arrives at the city morgue in Kyiv, Ukraine to pick up her husband, Film Director Oleg Babalo who was killed shortly before Christmas outside Bakhmut. Oleg directed many of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's TV shows, and worked closely with Olena Zelenska.

Actress Anne Yaremchuk holds a candle during her husbands funeral service at St. Michael's Monastery in Kyiv, Ukraine.

The Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine have provided respite for those fortunate to escape. For many, it's a distant dream that's out of reach.