Inna Pavlova struggles to hold back her tears as she recalls the moment she knew Russian troops had killed her 29-year-old son after he was captured in Ukraine’s fierce battle for Avdiivka in the Donetsk region.
Mykhailo Lebedev was 15 years old when Russian forces rolled into Mariupol and separated him from his sisters. Unlike many of the children in Ukraine displaced into Russia or the territories held by Moscow’s forces, the teenager was lucky to escape.
Yulia Romashkevich remembers the shock two years ago when she woke up in the early hours to the sound of Russian airstrikes on Ukraine. “My daughter woke up to eat,” she recalls. “I heard the first explosion and immediately started waking my husband.”
As Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine enters its third year, allegations and evidence of war crimes committed by Moscow’s forces continue to mount. International efforts are being made to prosecute the crimes, but many are worried that a majority of the incidents will never make it to trial.
Computer programmer Bohdan Shyn had no prior military experience when he volunteered to sign up at his local conscription office in Kamianske to fight against Russian forces in Ukraine.
Mykyta Zavilinskyi recalls trying to save a wounded soldier on Ukraine’s frontlines where he works as a volunteer paramedic.
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, 19-year-old IT student Maksym Chechykov wanted to help his country’s war effort. But he is not a trained military man.
Svitlana Klymenko remembers some of the dark scenes she witnessed in the city of Bakhmut in the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion when the 44-year-old was sheltering in a cramped basement with her husband and teenage daughter.
“10 years ago, Ukraine started a new page of struggle, 10 years ago, Ukrainians launched their first counteroffensive,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a speech last month marking the 10th anniversary of the Euromaidan protests. “Against lawlessness, attempts to deprive us of a European future.”
Far beyond the frontlines of the war in Ukraine, danger lurks in everything from common household items to children’s toys to public parks, many of which are littered with unexploded ordnance left behind by Russian forces who aim to sow fear and carnage across the war-torn country.
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