At a night club in Donetsk, Donetsk People's Republic on February 12, 2022. At 31st of January 2022 for the first time in 8 years the curfew was lifted during the weekend. During the week the curfew continues and people are not allowed to leave their houses after 11pm.
People I encounter are tired of the 8 years of curfew and demand to drop it fully. Donetsk. (Photo by The Washington Post)





Sina, 75, dancing at the park in Donetsk on February 13, 2022 say “There is war and we are dancing. How else? Otherwise you can not endure it. I'm from Russia but we lived better in Ukraine. My pension is 11.000 rubles. Can I live from this? No. That's why I continue working as a teacher”. (Photo by The Washington Post)





A skateboarder does a trick behind a mural of famous poet and activist Vasyl Stus on February 15, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. According to recent announcements by U.S President Biden's national security teams, the White House has warned of an ‘immediate’ threat of Russian invasion in Ukraine sighting February 16 as a possible invasion day, however Russia has announced that it would pull back some of it's troops in a potential move towards de-escalation. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)





A woman gets her hair done at a beauty salon on February 16, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)





A woman walks past a man selling vintage items on the street on February 15, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)





Pensioner Viktor collects firewood on February 16, 2022 in Novokostyantynivka Ukraine. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)





A man works out at Kyiv's famous outdoor gym on February 16, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)





The building of Ukraine's cabinet of ministers is illuminated with the colors of the Ukrainian flag on a national Day of Unity in Kyiv on February 16, 2022. (Photo by Serhii Nuzhnenko/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





An elderly lady walks by as members of the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination on ceasefire of the demarcation line, or JCCC, survey a crater and damage to a house from artillery shell that landed in Vrubivka, one of the at least eight that hit the village today, according to local officials, in the Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, February 17, 2022. U.S. President Joe Biden warned that Russia could still invade Ukraine within days and Russia expelled the No. 2 diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, as tensions flared anew in the worst East-West standoff in decades. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)





Women wait at a bus stop in Odessa, Ukraine, Thursday, February 17, 2022. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo)





Ukrainian National guard soldiers guard the mobile checkpoint toghether with the Ukrainian Security Service agents and police officers during a joint operation in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, February 17, 2022. Fears of a new war in Europe have resurged as U.S. President Joe Biden warned that Russia could invade Ukraine within days, and violence spiked in a long-running standoff in eastern Ukraine that some fear could be the spark for wider conflict. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





Tank T-64 and a BMP vehicle are seen clashing during a military drill for Ukrainian soldiers at the training centre of Ukrainian Ground Forces near Rivne, Ukraine, February 16, 2022. (Photo by Antonio Bronic/Reuters)





An interior view shows a kindergarten, which according to Ukraine's military officials was damaged by shelling, in Stanytsia Luhanska, in the Luhansk region, Ukraine, February 17, 2022. (Photo by Carlos Barria/Reuters)





A militant of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic holds a bullet belt at combat positions near the line of separation from the Ukrainian armed forces outside the settlement of Molodizhne (Molodezhnoye) in the Luhansk region, Ukraine on February 17, 2022. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)





A girl looks at symbolic paper angels to pay tribute at the Maidan activists memorial also called the “Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred”, referring to the people killed during the anti-government demonstration of 2014, during a memorial event near the Independence Square, in Kyiv on February 18, 2022. Ukraine marksthe eighth anniversary of the bloody end to the revolution that ousted Russian-backed president Viktor Yanukovych and in which nearly 100 people were killed, most of them between February 18 and February 20, 2014. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)





A woman holds Kalashnikov assault rifle during a training session with members of the Georgian Legion, a paramilitary unit formed mainly by ethnic Georgian volunteers to fight against Russian forces in Ukraine in 2014, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, February 19, 2022. Separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine have ordered a full military mobilization amid growing fears in the West that Russia is planning to invade the neighboring country. The announcement on Saturday came amid a spike in violence along the line of contact between Ukrainian forces and the pro-Russia rebels in recent days. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)





An instructor shows a young woman how to use a grenade during a training with members of the Georgian Legion, a paramilitary unit formed mainly by ethnic Georgian volunteers to fight against the Russian aggression in Ukraine in 2014, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, February 19, 2022. Separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine have ordered a full military mobilization amid growing fears in the West that Russia is planning to invade the neighboring country. The announcement on Saturday came amid a spike in violence along the line of contact between Ukrainian forces and the pro-Russia rebels in recent days. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)





A resident learns how to point and shoot with a wooden stick as she takes part in a military exercise for civilians conducted by Christian Territorial Defence, amid threat of Russian invasion in Kyiv, Ukraine on February 19, 2022. (Photo by Umit Bektas/Reuters)





Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar's activists perform with doors in front of the Russian Embassy in Kiev, 21 February 2022. Eleven broken doors were installed as a symbol of 11 broken lives of civic journalists and Crimean Tatars in front of the Russian Embassy. More than a hundred activists and Crimean Tatars have been detained by the Russian authority for their civic stance since the annexation of Crimea in 2014. (Photo by Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA/EFE)





A Ukrainian serviceman walks near the frontline village of Krymske, Luhansk region, in eastern Ukraine, Saturday, February 19, 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, facing a sharp spike in violence in and around territory held by Russia-backed rebels and increasingly dire warnings that Russia plans to invade, on Saturday called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet him and seek resolution to the crisis. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)