100 inspiring stories of Ukrainians

Repair Together: young people rebuild destroyed villages

Illustration: #OleksanderShatokhin #Cherniiv #Kyiv // Being a volunteer in Ukraine is stylish and sometimes even fun. At least, that's...

The girl donated all the money for the Armed Forces

Illustration: #AnnaIvanenko #Mukachevo #Zakarpattia // In July 2022, Lida celebrated her ninth birthday. The girl lives in Mukachevo, a...

Association "Kyiv Volunteer"

Story and photo: Sashko Borovskiy Illustration: #AnnaIvanenko #Kyiv #Chernihiv #Mykolaiv // Sashko went to the Dubler coffee shop at 8...

Evacuation of children from the orphanage

Story and photo: Maksym Muzyka Illustration: #OleksandrShatokhin #Mykolaiv #Dnipropetrovsk #Kropyvnytskyi // “It is impossible to...

The artist helps animals

Story and photo: Tetiana Kopytova Illustration: #JuliaTveritina #Kyiv // The artist and illustrator Tetiana moved to a village near Kyiv...

"Mama Ukraine"

Story and photo: Katia Garan Illustration: #JeniaPolosina // People all over the world began to go to rallies in support of Ukraine after...

Cyclist who raised one million hryvnias for the Armed Forces

Story and photo: Bohdan Prokopovych Illustration: #OleksandrShatokhin #Okhtyrka #Sumy #Kharkiv #Kramatorsk #Donetsk #Zaporizhzhia...

A team of journalists from The New York Times

Story and photo: Natalia Yermak Illustration: #JuliaTveritina #Huliaipole #Zaporizhzhia // Before the full-scale war, Natalia was working...

Campaign #SaveMariupol

Story and photo: Khrystyna Kulakovska Illustration: #MashaFoya #Mariupol #Lviv // Journalist and photographer Khrystyna was born in...

Housing for IDPs

Story and photo: Anastasiia Ponomariova Illustration: #AnnaSarvira #Slovyansk #Mariupol #Bakhmut #Kostiantynivka #Lysychansk...

A pilot who rescued people from Azovstal

Story and photo: Mr. Ivan Illustration: #SophiaRunova #Kyiv #Chernihiv #Mariupol // For 86 days, Ukrainian defenders heroically held the...

Athletes in defense of Ukraine

Illustration: #OlehGryshchenko #Kharkiv #Odesa // Those who for many years represented Ukraine and won prizes at international...

Evacuation of people with reduced mobility

Illustration: #AnnaSarvira #Luhansk #Donetsk #Chernivtsi Evacuating from hot spots is a difficult task for anyone, but people with...

The UNIVERSUM theatre project

Story and photo: Oleksandr Maksymov Illustration: #VeronikaKotyk #Drohobych #Lviv #Mariupol #Severodonetsk // 130 years ago, the Polish...

Alliance of Ukrainian Organizations

Story: Nataliia Pryhornytska Illustration: #OlenaStaranchuk // Nataliia moved from Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine to Germany right after...

Volunteering and the University of the Third Age

Story and photo: Liudmyla Buha Illustration: #SophiaRunova #Stryi #Lviv // "If I didn’t volunteer and go to the University of the Third...

War Diaries

Story: Oksana Matiychuk Illustration: #OlehGryshchenko #Cherkasy #Chernivtsi // Oksana, a manager of cultural projects, author and...

An entrepreneur produces ropes for the National Guard

Illustration: #IlliaUhnivenko #Kharkiv // When equipment is damaged on the front line, it must be quickly delivered to the rear for...

Coordinator of the "Child Tracing Service"

Illustration: #OlenaStaranchuk // Director, writer and musician Ruslan is used to living life to the fullest, and the Russian full-scale...

An 11-year-old boy works to help the AFU

Illustration: #OlehGryshchenko #Chernivtsi #Donetsk #Pokrovsk // A year before the start of the full-scale war, Maksym read a book where...

A teacher from Georgia collected $700,000 for Ukraine

Illustration: #AnnaSarvira // When Russia launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, teacher Lado Apkhazawa from Chibati, a village in...

Dentists treat military and IDPs

Illustration: #OlenaStaranchuk #Ternopil #Kyiv #IvanoFrankivsk // Toothache is one of those problems that can start suddenly and prevent...

A volunteer in Makariv

Story and photo: Anastasiia Kharuk Illustration: #OlehGryshchenko #Makariv #Bucha #Kyiv // When Anastasiia's family woke up from the...

Frauentreff HellMa supports Ukrainian women

Story and photo: Tetiana Honcharuk Illustration: #JeniaPolosina #Kyiv // Tetiana moved to Berlin five years ago. Having a background in...