![A man rides his bike past destroyed buildings on March 03, 2022 in Irpin, Ukraine. A man rides his bike past destroyed buildings on March 03, 2022 in Irpin, Ukraine.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/images/components/GettyImages-1377906651.jpg?h=41f55a5b)
![Journalists and residents stand as smoke rises after an attack by Russian army in Odessa, on April 3, 2022. Air strikes rocked Ukraine's strategic Black Sea port Odessa early Sunday morning, according to an interior ministry official, after Kyiv had warned that Russia was trying to consolidate its troops in the south. Journalists and residents stand as smoke rises after an attack by Russian army in Odessa, on April 3, 2022. Air strikes rocked Ukraine's strategic Black Sea port Odessa early Sunday morning, according to an interior ministry official, after Kyiv had warned that Russia was trying to consolidate its troops in the south.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/images/focus/GettyImages-1239705530-crop.jpg?h=41f55a5b)
![A man stands amid debris in front of a residential apartment complex that was heavily damaged by a Russian attack on March 18, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. A man stands amid debris in front of a residential apartment complex that was heavily damaged by a Russian attack on March 18, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/images/story/GettyImages-1386192539.jpg?h=aec9a0b3)
![People walk amid destruction as they evacuate from a contested frontline area between Bucha and Irpin on March 10, 2022 in Irpin, Ukraine. People walk amid destruction as they evacuate from a contested frontline area between Bucha and Irpin on March 10, 2022 in Irpin, Ukraine.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/images/components/GettyImages-1383959879.jpg?h=41f55a5b)
![Passengers depart the railway station after disembarking trains from the east on March 11, 2022 in Lviv, Ukraine. Passengers depart the railway station after disembarking trains from the east on March 11, 2022 in Lviv, Ukraine.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/images/focus/GettyImages-1384228489.jpg?h=41f55a5b)
![Journalists are seen working on the doorstep of an hotel on Maidan Square on March 1, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Journalists are seen working on the doorstep of an hotel on Maidan Square on March 1, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/images/components/GettyImages-1238853212.jpg?h=41f55a5b)
![Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a residential apartment building after it was hit by a Russian attack in the early hours of the morning in the Sviatoshynskyi District on March 15, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a residential apartment building after it was hit by a Russian attack in the early hours of the morning in the Sviatoshynskyi District on March 15, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/images/components/GettyImages-1385341054.jpg?h=41f55a5b)
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Ukraine Voices
The Ukraine Voices project supports Ukrainian journalists reporting on the Russian invasion of their country.
Years active: 2022-present
IWPR’s Ukraine Voices programming has been supported by a number of valuable donors, including the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO), the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Views expressed in publications supported under Ukraine Voices are those of the author(s).
Latest Reports
Will Sanctions Alone Undermine Russia’s Defence Industry?
Current policy is clearly failing to disrupt Moscow’s predatory plans.
Ukraine's Transparency Dilemma
Until February 24, Ukraine was a European leader in open data. Russia’s invasion has made maintaining transparent processes more difficult.
Russia Holds Ukrainian Civilians Hostage
Moscow refuses to acknowledge thousands of detentions as prisoners families’ fear for their fate.
Mariupol: Life After the Drama Theatre
Actors from the venue that became a symbol of the horror of war reconsider their future.
Russian Invasion Overshadows Domestic Violence in Ukraine
Experts fear that a fall in reported cases obscures a hidden epidemic.
Ukraine Rewrites its Russian Past
Ongoing reconsideration of the use of Russian language, culture, and music gathers new momentum following Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Swimming Out of Besieged Mariupol
How one man swam to safety by diving into icy sea water to escape the Russian siege.
Ukraine: Life in Occupied Izyum
Communication is sketchy in the Russian-occupied city as former residents try to locate loved ones struggling to access fuel, food and water.
Ukraine: Survivors of Kremenchuk Attack Describe Mall “Horror”
"The worst thing was hearing screams of people looking for their relatives".
![Ukrainian tank crew near Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/grid_desktop_456_x_508_/public/images/story/GettyImages-1396289187.jpg?h=8cd565e4)
Ukraine: Sounds and Silence of a Long War
As the Ukrainian commander-in-chief warns of endless trench warfare, that’s exactly how it feels at the front.
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![Graffiti of a child throwing a man over on the floor is seen on a wall amid damaged buildings in Borodyanka on November 09, 2022 in Kyiv Region, Ukraine. Borodyanka was hit particularly hard by Russian airstrikes in the first few weeks of the conflict.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/focus_main_image_932_x_580_/public/images/components/GettyImages-1244646562.jpg?h=34f4e32d)
![Oleksandr Kamyshin is head of Ukraine’s rail state company.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/focus_main_image_932_x_580_/public/images/story/ukraine-Oleksandr-Kamyshin-5-O-Kamyshin.jpg?h=3c8b1397)
![Like any other Ukrainian, the last 12 months have presented Sevgil Musaieva, Ukrainska Pravda’s editor-in-chief, with innumerable challenges: from her team’s safety and security to the outlet’s financial support to how to operate amid power outages caused by Russian shelling.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/focus_main_image_932_x_580_/public/images/story/ukraine-Sevgil-Musaieva-1-S-Musaieva.jpg?h=ada05aa9)
![Iryna Kondratova is head of the Kharkiv Regional Perinatal Centre.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/focus_main_image_932_x_580_/public/images/story/ukraine-Iryna-Kondratova-4-I-Kondratova.jpg?h=79ff3f41)
![Serhiy Prytula is a former TV presenter, actor and politician who has been fundraising since 2014 in the wake of the Kremlin’s annexation of Crimea.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/focus_main_image_932_x_580_/public/images/story/ukraine-Serhiy-Prytula-1-S-Prytula.jpg?h=68152718)
![Ulyana Moroz, Lviv Puppet Theatre director.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/focus_main_image_932_x_580_/public/images/story/ukraine-Ulyana-Moroz-puppets-Lviv-Puppet-Theatre.jpg?h=40be463c)
![A celebrated Ukrainian medic Yuliia Paevska, code name Taira, rose to fame on March 15, 2022 when she managed to smuggle out of Mariupol footage of the southern city under Russian siege. She was by Russian forces the day after and spent 94 days as a prisoner of war. She developed a course on tactical medicine and organised a unit of volunteers, called later the Angels of Taira, which has evacuated hundreds of wounded servicemen and civilians. © Courtesy of Y. Paevska.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/focus_main_image_932_x_580_/public/images/story/ukraine-Yuliia-Paevska-2-Y-Paevska.jpg?h=89029dda)
![Olena Khromova and her husband Oleh opened the café Protagoniste in 2019 and planned to create a space to bring Kharkiv’s creative youth together.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/focus_main_image_932_x_580_/public/images/story/ukraine-Olena-Khromova-2-O-Khromova.jpg?h=3d0b1627)
Ukraine: One Year On
IWPR looks at the impact of the full-scale invasion on ordinary Ukrainians.
Since February 24, 2022 Ukraine has withstood bombing, siege and unbearable atrocities. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has brought the worst destruction Europe has seen since WWII.
But the Russian missiles have not shattered Ukrainians’ resilience.