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A woman walks between anti-tank hedgehogs, which were installed to protect the city from the Russian troops, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022.

A Ukrainian man spent months digging through the wreckage of an apartment block to find the body of a close friend from his school days. Pavlo Holub lives in Izyum, and he carried out this work during the six-month Russian occupation of the town before it was liberated by Ukrainian forces in September. During this time, Holub says he was also ordered by a Moscow-appointed official to bury 17 Ukrainian soldiers in a mass grave.

Two men walk home from a local store as the sounds of incoming and outgoing artillery fire fill the air in Siversk, Ukraine, November 30, 2022.

People fill up bottles with water near the Dnipro River after Russia's military retreat from Kherson, Ukraine, November 29, 2022.

Men connect a homemade light with a battery to illuminate the pitch ahead of a soccer game during a blackout in Irpin, Kyiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022. For soccer lovers in Ukraine, Russia's invasion and the devastation it has wrought have created uncertainties about both playing the sport and watching it. For Ukrainians these days, soccer trails well behind mere survival in the order of priorities.