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Soldiering on amid the despair

The city of Lviv in western Ukraine is over 1,000km away from the front lines of the Russian invasion – and so markets and restaurants are open, babies are born, and life, defiantly, goes on

Fleeing Ukrainians unaware of Irish accommodation shortage

Volunteer says 40 to 50 people travel to Ireland every week from Lviv, but they know nothing about the difficulty in securing a place to stay here

Jeff Farrell in Ukraine: ‘This is the bloody Russian world’

Until a few weeks ago, the village of Tetyanivka was on the front line of the Ukraine invasion. Now the few residents left are coming to terms with the trauma and trying to rebuild

Jeff Farrell: ‘My friend doesn’t even have spoons, no fridge, nothing, they took everything’

The people of Izium are beginning the task of rebuilding their city, devastated after Russian shelling and six months of occupation

Dispatch from Ukraine: A national opera hits a defiant and powerful note

As some homesick refugees, tired of living on makeshift cots in refugee centres abroad, are taking a chance and returning to Lviv, the city’s opera house, which used to stage Russian works, will only show Ukrainian productions for the duration of the war

Dispatch from Ukraine: ‘We need more guns, more missiles. We have no choice, we must win’

While most residents around Mykolaiv have fled, some have ignored an order to evacuate: either they didn’t have the money to go, or they didn’t have the energy. Others just didn’t want to leave

Dispatch from Donbas: The Russian shelling stops ‘only when it rains’

Sean Stark, a former US Marine, spent three weeks on the frontline in the Donbas region with a unit of other foreign fighters, under what he called ‘constant’ artillery attacks

Escape from Ukraine: ‘I want to start a new life in Ireland – and to live a safe life there’

In the Full Market centre in Rzeszow, Poland, Ukrainian refugees who are making their way further west – to Ireland and England – say they hope to make a fresh start for their families

Jeff Farrell: In Poland, Ukrainians are torn by the dilemma of returning home or remaining in exile

Weary of being displaced from their homeland for four months, many Ukrainian refugees are leaving Poland even as they are thankful for their neighbour’s hospitality in a time of war

‘I don’t want war, I want peace. I want a world without war’

In Kyiv’s Independence Square, there are tears for a missing soldier and a shrine to the estimated 20,000 foreign volunteers fighting for Ukraine, bedecked with their national flags – among them the Irish tricolour

Rebuilding Ukraine: ‘It is a victory for humanity that we can be destroyed but rise from nothing’

Even as Russian troops move into the east of Ukraine, citizens in and around the capital Kyiv are working to rebuild their communities from the ruins

On the ground in Ukraine: ‘These guys walked around expecting people to thank them as liberators’

Almost three months into the Russian invasion, the people of Kharkiv are remaining stoic as they endure a seemingly endless barrage of artillery fire and bullets

Defiance in Lviv: ‘We will win this war. Absolutely. We are sure of that’

Up to last week, the western Ukrainian city of Lviv was considered a safe haven for refugees fleeing from other parts of the country. Now, it has been targeted by Russian missiles, but its citizens remain unbowed