UKRAINE
Trial by fire

Yuri, Ihor, Vassili, Taira, Oleksandr, Vladimir, and Ana are Ukrainian, Transnistrian, or Moldovan. They faced the full force of the invasion of their country by Vladimir Putin's Russia. Some were held captive for months, others seriously wounded on the front lines.

Caught between their aspirations to join NATO and the European Union, and the weight of a devastating war, these men and women question the very meaning of freedom. What is the true price of their fight for independence in the heart of this fratricidal conflict?