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Hope, help, and sorrow in Ukraine

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By Nick Childers, photography

March 19: A Russian rocket attack destroyed apartments in the Vitryani Hory neighborhood of Kyiv, killing one man and injuring five, including children. Volunteers and residents work to clean up the aftermath.
March 19: A Russian rocket attack destroyed apartments in the Vitryani Hory neighborhood of Kyiv, killing one man and injuring five, including children. Volunteers and residents work to clean up the aftermath.
March 19: A Russian rocket attack destroyed apartments in the Vitryani Hory neighborhood of Kyiv, killing one man and injuring five, including children. Volunteers and residents work to clean up the aftermath.
A Russian rocket attack destroyed apartments in the Vitryani Hory neighborhood of Kyiv early in the morning, killing one man and injuring five, including children. Here, volunteers and residents work to clean up as best they can.
Ukrainian soldiers holding the photo of one of the 35 soldiers killed from the bombing of the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv outside of Lviv near the border with Poland Sunday morning. A funeral was held for three of those killed at the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv, Ukraine.
March 15: Ukrainian soldiers holding the photo of one of the 35 soldiers killed from the bombing of the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv outside of Lviv near the border with Poland. A funeral was held for three of those killed at the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv.
March 15: The mother of one of the 35 soldiers killed in the Sunday morning bombing of the International Peacekeeping and Security Center. A funeral was held for three of those killed at the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv.
Ukrainain soldiers carrying the casket of one of the 35 soldiers killed from the Sunday morning bombing of the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv outside of Lviv near the border with Poland. A funeral was held for three of those killed at the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv, Ukraine.
March 15: Soldiers carrying the casket of one of the 35 soldiers killed in the Sunday morning bombing of the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv. A funeral was held for three of those killed at the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv.
The mother of one of the 35 soldiers killed from the Sunday morning bombing of the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv outside of Lviv near the border with Poland. A funeral was held for three of those killed at the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv, Ukraine.
March 15: The mother of one of the 35 soldiers killed in the Sunday morning bombing of the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv outside of Lviv near the border with Poland. A funeral was held for three of those killed at the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv.
A funeral was held for three of those killed at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv outside of Lviv near the border with Poland Sunday morning. It was held at the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv, Ukraine.
March 15: A young girl looks on during a funeral for three of those killed at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv. It was held at the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv.
A relative of one of the 35 soldiers killed from the Sunday morning bombing of the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv outside of Lviv near the border with Poland. A funeral was held for three of those killed at the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv, Ukraine.
March 15: A relative of one of the 35 soldiers killed in the Sunday morning bombing of the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv outside of Lviv near the border with Poland. A funeral was held for three of those killed at the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv.
A funeral was held for three of those killed at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv outside of Lviv near the border with Poland Sunday morning. It was held at the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv, Ukraine.
March 15: A funeral was held for three of those killed at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv outside of Lviv near the border with Poland Sunday morning. It was held at the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv.
A funeral was held for three of those killed at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv outside of Lviv near the border with Poland Sunday morning. It was held at the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv, Ukraine. Clergy signing hymns.
Mourners listen on as clergy sing hymns during a funeral for three of those killed Sunday in a bombing at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv.
A funeral was held for three of those killed at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv outside of Lviv near the border with Poland Sunday morning. It was held at the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv, Ukraine. Women praying at the alter of the Virgin Mary during the funeral.
Women pray at the alter of the Virgin Mary during a funeral for three of those killed during a bombing Sunday at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center.
Ukrainian soldiers holding the photo of one of the 35 soldiers killed from the bombing of the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv outside of Lviv near the border with Poland Sunday morning. They were laid to rest at the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine.
Ukrainian soldiers holding the photo of one of the 35 soldiers killed from the bombing of the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv. They were laid to rest at the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv.
Relatives of one of the 35 soldiers killed from the bombing of the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv outside of Lviv near the border with Poland watch as their loved on is buried in the military section of the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine.
Relatives of one of the 35 soldiers killed from the bombing of the International Peacekeeping and Security Center watch as their loved on is buried in the military section of the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv.
Volunteers at St. George Catholic Cathedral in Lviv, Ukraine prepare supplies to send to cities in the east.
March 14: Volunteers at St. George Catholic Cathedral in Lviv prepare supplies to send to cities in the east.
A box of supplies from the US at St. George Catholic Cathedral in Lviv, Ukraine as volunteers prepare to send supplies to send to cities in the east.
March 14: A box of supplies from the U.S. at St. George Catholic Cathedral in Lviv as volunteers prepare to send supplies to send to cities in the east.
An 18th-century statue is covered at the entrance to St. George Catholic Cathedral in Lviv, Ukraine in preparation for possible Russian bombing.
March 14: An 18th-century statue is covered at the entrance to St. George Catholic Cathedral in Lviv, in preparation for possible Russian bombing.
A bomb shelter in Ivan Franko park in Lviv, Ukraine. The sign reads SHELTER.
A bomb shelter in Ivan Franko park in Lviv. The sign reads SHELTER.
March 5: As the exodus from Ukraine intensifies, the Lviv railway station has become engulfed with people. Lviv is located about 50 miles from the Polish border. Here, families walk over the rail lines to get to the station.
March 5: As the exodus from Ukraine intensifies, the Lviv railway station has become engulfed with people. Lviv is located about 50 miles from the Polish border. Here, families walk over the rail lines to get to the station.
March 5: A woman approaches the Lviv train station to cross the border. The station normally runs four trains a day to Poland.
March 5: A woman approaches the Lviv train station to cross the border. The station normally runs four trains a day to Poland.
March 5: A woman cradles a baby in Lviv, amid a throng of people waiting to get out of the country.
March 5: A woman cradles a baby in Lviv, amid a throng of people waiting to get out of the country.
March 5: People gather around a fire to stay warm at Lviv train station. The United Nations estimates that nearly 1.4 million people have fled the country since Russia invaded on Feb. 24.

Ukrainians fleeing from the fighitng pass through Lviv Train Station on their way to neighboring European countries.
March 5: A child aboard a train in Lviv. The city has been spared from Russian attacks and is the destination for thousands of Ukrainians seeking to get to Poland.

Ukrainian refugees who just crossed the border into Medyka, Poland
March 3: Ukrainian refugees who just crossed the border into Medyka, Poland.
Ukrainian refugees who just crossed the border into Medyka, Poland
March 3: Ukrainian refugees who just crossed the border into Medyka, Poland.
Ukrainian refugees who just crossed the border into Medyka, Poland
March 3: Ukrainian refugees who just crossed the border into Medyka, Poland.
Ukrainian refugees who just crossed the border into Medyka, Poland
March 3: Ukrainian refugees who just crossed the border into Medyka, Poland.
Ukrainian refugees waiting in a long line to cross into Medyka, Poland from Ukraine.
March 3: Ukrainian refugees waiting in a long line to cross into Poland.
Ukrainian refugees crossing the border into Medyka, Poland
March 3: Ukrainian refugees crossing the border into Medyka, Poland.

Millions of people have fled from Ukraine amid the Russian invasion.

People are flooding across the border, into Poland, in the days since Russia invaded the country on Feb. 24. The United Nations predicts more than 10 million people could be displaced from the Eastern European country, even as thousands vow to stay and fight.

Visual journalist and filmmaker Nick Childers is in Ukraine, where he is reporting for several media outlets, including Postindustrial.

If you have family in Ukraine, we’d like to hear from you. Reach out at editorial@postindustrial.com.

 

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Nick is a visual journalist and filmmaker. He has produced short documentaries and news videos for NBC News, New York Times ‘The Weekly’, VICE News Tonight on HBO, Washington Post, and a host of local and regional media outlets. He also produces podcasts for Postindustrial. He is based in Pittsburgh.

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