Eduard,13, originally from Luhansk, lies in his bed inside of Sviati Gory, an IDP shelter for mentally and physically handicapped in Sviatohirsk, on April 22, 2017. Eduard's mother says, "the explosions never bothered him in Luhansk, he would be laughing and smiling...In some sense, he is a happy kid, because he doesn’t completely realize what is going on, he lives in his own world."

Sergei, an injured Ukrainian soldier poses for a portrait outside his tent in Kyiv in March of 2015.

Light spills through the wholes in a barn created by shrapnel from the shelling of a small town outside of Mariupol in Eastern Ukraine.

A Ukrainian Soldier patrols along the front lines 25km from Mariupol.

Maria becomes overcome with emotion while recounting her fleeing shelling of her home in Donetsk. 

A Ukrainian flag waves in the city of Mariupol.

A boy smokes a cigarette outside of a school in Sviatohirsk, on April 21, 2017. Many of the IDP children who relocated to Sviatohirsk attend this school.

A man goes back to the shelter for mentally and physically handicapped in Sviatohirsk.

A mother and daughter walk out of a shelter for IDPs in Sviatohirsk.