10 | Alena. Photo from the project "Between borders". Ukraine, Uzhgorod | 2022.
Between borders
In January 2014, in April i was forced to leave her home and hometown due to military events in Donbass. Since 2017 i has lived in Bucha. As a result of the full-scale invasion of Russia in February 2022, I and my family became refugees for the second time. We fled to the Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod. I came to the station and helped people who were brought by evacuation trains. There I photographed portraits of refugees, at the junction of borders, destinies and times.
Alena and her family came from the city of Balakliya, Kharkov region. Their housing was bombed, and they were forced to flee through the green corridor.
The girl is the fifth youngest child in the family, her grandmother is confined to a wheelchair, and her grandfather could not be evacuated. The road to a safe place took 3 days.