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  • Young boys are going back home after a visit to the bazaar passing by some of the caves in Bamyian that are still inhabited by a mixture of IDP (Internally-Displaced Persons) returnees and others with no chances for a better home. The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, situated 230 km northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters. The statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art. The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modelled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco. Amid widespread international condemnation, the smaller statues (55 and 39 meters respectively) were intentionally dynamited and destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban because they believed them to be un-Islamic idols. Once a stopping point along the Silk Road between China and the Middle East, researchers think Bamiyan was the site of monasteries housing as many as 5,000 monks during its peak as a Buddhist centre in the 6th and 7th centuries. It is now a UNESCO Heritage Site since 2003. Archaeologists from various countries across the world have been engaged in preservation, general maintenance around the site and renovation. Professor Tarzi, a notable An Afghan-born archaeologist from France, and a teacher in Strasbourg University, has been searching for a legendary 300m Sleeping Buddha statue in various sites between the original standing ones, as documented in the old account of a renowned Chinese scholar, Xuanzang, visiting the area in the 7th century. Professor Tarzi worked on projects to restore the other Bamiyan Buddhas in the late 1970s and has spent most of his career researching the existence of the missing giant Buddha in the valley.
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  • Yaroslav, 10, is filming with his UNICEF video camera near the provisional home where he resides with his mother Olga, 36, as internally displaced persons. (IDPs) Yeroslav is taking part to the UNICEF-sponsored One Minute Junior project for internally displaced persons (IDPs), carried out by the local NGO 'Ukrainian Frontiers' in the city of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest, in the east. The conflict between Ukrainian army and Russia-backed separatists nearby, in the Donbass region, have left more than 10000 dead since April 2014, including over 1000 since the shaky Minsk II ceasefire came into effect in February 2015. The approximate number of people displaced by the conflict is 1.4 million as of August 2015. Yeroslav’s mother, Olga, is also a participant to a different project of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', called 'Self-Employment', first as a beneficiary, and now as a paid hotline coordinator for people seeking jobs and formation courses.
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  • Yaroslav, 10, is going out with his mother Olga, 36, to use his UNICEF video camera, near the provisional home where they live as internally displaced persons. (IDPs) Yeroslav is taking part to the UNICEF-sponsored One Minute Junior project for internally displaced persons (IDPs), carried out by the local NGO 'Ukrainian Frontiers' in the city of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest, in the east. The conflict between Ukrainian army and Russia-backed separatists nearby, in the Donbass region, have left more than 10000 dead since April 2014, including over 1000 since the shaky Minsk II ceasefire came into effect in February 2015. The approximate number of people displaced by the conflict is 1.4 million as of August 2015. Yeroslav’s mother, Olga, is also a participant to a different project of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', called 'Self-Employment', first as a beneficiary, and now as a paid hotline coordinator for people seeking jobs and formation courses.
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  • Yaroslav, 10, is going out with his mother Olga, 36, to use his UNICEF video-camera, near the provisional home where they live as internally displaced persons. (IDPs) Yeroslav is taking part to the UNICEF-sponsored One Minute Junior project for internally displaced persons (IDPs), carried out by the local NGO 'Ukrainian Frontiers' in the city of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest, in the east. The conflict between Ukrainian army and Russia-backed separatists nearby, in the Donbass region, have left more than 10000 dead since April 2014, including over 1000 since the shaky Minsk II ceasefire came into effect in February 2015. The approximate number of people displaced by the conflict is 1.4 million as of August 2015. Yeroslav’s mother, Olga, is also a participant to a different project of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', called 'Self-Employment', first as a beneficiary, and now as a paid hotline coordinator for people seeking jobs and formation courses.
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  • Yaroslav, 10, is playing with a small photo/video-recording drone while inside the provisional home where he resides with his mother Olga, 36, as internally displaced persons. (IDPs) Yeroslav is taking part to the UNICEF-sponsored One Minute Junior project for internally displaced persons (IDPs), carried out by the local NGO 'Ukrainian Frontiers' in the city of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest, in the east. The conflict between Ukrainian army and Russia-backed separatists nearby, in the Donbass region, have left more than 10000 dead since April 2014, including over 1000 since the shaky Minsk II ceasefire came into effect in February 2015. The approximate number of people displaced by the conflict is 1.4 million as of August 2015. Yeroslav’s mother, Olga, is also a participant to a different project of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', called 'Self-Employment', first as a beneficiary, and now as a paid hotline coordinator for people seeking jobs and formation courses.
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  • Yaroslav, 10, is using his UNICEF video-camera while visiting 'Ukrainian Frontiers', inside a community meeting place in support of internally displaced persons. (IDPs) Yeroslav is taking part to the UNICEF-sponsored One Minute Junior project for internally displaced persons (IDPs), carried out by the local NGO 'Ukrainian Frontiers' in the city of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest, in the east. The conflict between Ukrainian army and Russia-backed separatists nearby, in the Donbass region, have left more than 10000 dead since April 2014, including over 1000 since the shaky Minsk II ceasefire came into effect in February 2015. The approximate number of people displaced by the conflict is 1.4 million as of August 2015. Yeroslav’s mother, Olga, is also a participant to a different project of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', called 'Self-Employment', first as a beneficiary, and now as a paid hotline coordinator for people seeking jobs and formation courses.
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  • Marina Rassokha, 50, of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', is discussing some video settings with Yaroslav, 10, and his mother Olga, 36, inside a community meeting place in support of internally displaced persons. (IDPs) Yeroslav is taking part to the UNICEF-sponsored One Minute Junior project for internally displaced persons (IDPs), carried out by the local NGO 'Ukrainian Frontiers' in the city of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest, in the east. The conflict between Ukrainian army and Russia-backed separatists nearby, in the Donbass region, have left more than 10000 dead since April 2014, including over 1000 since the shaky Minsk II ceasefire came into effect in February 2015. The approximate number of people displaced by the conflict is 1.4 million as of August 2015. Yeroslav’s mother, Olga, is also a participant to a different project of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', called 'Self-Employment', first as a beneficiary, and now as a paid hotline coordinator for people seeking jobs and formation courses.
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  • Using a computer, Marina Rassokha, 50, of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', is reviewing some video made by Yaroslav, 10, while inside a community meeting place in support of internally displaced persons. (IDPs) Yeroslav is taking part to the UNICEF-sponsored One Minute Junior project for internally displaced persons (IDPs), carried out by the local NGO 'Ukrainian Frontiers' in the city of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest, in the east. The conflict between Ukrainian army and Russia-backed separatists nearby, in the Donbass region, have left more than 10000 dead since April 2014, including over 1000 since the shaky Minsk II ceasefire came into effect in February 2015. The approximate number of people displaced by the conflict is 1.4 million as of August 2015. Yeroslav’s mother, Olga, is also a participant to a different project of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', called 'Self-Employment', first as a beneficiary, and now as a paid hotline coordinator for people seeking jobs and formation courses.
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  • Marina Rassokha, 50, of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', is discussing some of the video she just reviewed with Yaroslav, 10, and his mother Olga, 36, inside a community meeting place in support of internally displaced persons. (IDPs) Yeroslav is taking part to the UNICEF-sponsored One Minute Junior project for internally displaced persons (IDPs), carried out by the local NGO 'Ukrainian Frontiers' in the city of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest, in the east. The conflict between Ukrainian army and Russia-backed separatists nearby, in the Donbass region, have left more than 10000 dead since April 2014, including over 1000 since the shaky Minsk II ceasefire came into effect in February 2015. The approximate number of people displaced by the conflict is 1.4 million as of August 2015. Yeroslav’s mother, Olga, is also a participant to a different project of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', called 'Self-Employment', first as a beneficiary, and now as a paid hotline coordinator for people seeking jobs and formation courses.
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  • With his mother Olga, 36, Yeroslav, 10, (centre) is showing his photo/video-recording drone to a young friend inside a community meeting place in support of internally displaced persons. (IDPs) Yeroslav is taking part to the UNICEF-sponsored One Minute Junior project for internally displaced persons (IDPs), carried out by the local NGO 'Ukrainian Frontiers' in the city of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest, in the east. The conflict between Ukrainian army and Russia-backed separatists nearby, in the Donbass region, have left more than 10000 dead since April 2014, including over 1000 since the shaky Minsk II ceasefire came into effect in February 2015. The approximate number of people displaced by the conflict is 1.4 million as of August 2015. Yeroslav’s mother, Olga, is also a participant to a different project of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', called 'Self-Employment', first as a beneficiary, and now as a paid hotline coordinator for people seeking jobs and formation courses.
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  • With his mother Olga, 36, Yeroslav, 10, (left) is showing his photo/video-recording drone to a young friend, inside a community meeting place in support of internally displaced persons. (IDPs) Yeroslav is taking part to the UNICEF-sponsored One Minute Junior project for internally displaced persons (IDPs), carried out by the local NGO 'Ukrainian Frontiers' in the city of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest, in the east. The conflict between Ukrainian army and Russia-backed separatists nearby, in the Donbass region, have left more than 10000 dead since April 2014, including over 1000 since the shaky Minsk II ceasefire came into effect in February 2015. The approximate number of people displaced by the conflict is 1.4 million as of August 2015. Yeroslav’s mother, Olga, is also a participant to a different project of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', called 'Self-Employment', first as a beneficiary, and now as a paid hotline coordinator for people seeking jobs and formation courses.
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  • Yaroslav, 10, is checking his UNICEF video camera while inside the provisional home where he resides with his mother Olga, 36, as internally displaced persons. (IDPs) Yeroslav is taking part to the UNICEF-sponsored One Minute Junior project for internally displaced persons (IDPs), carried out by the local NGO 'Ukrainian Frontiers' in the city of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest, in the east. The conflict between Ukrainian army and Russia-backed separatists nearby, in the Donbass region, have left more than 10000 dead since April 2014, including over 1000 since the shaky Minsk II ceasefire came into effect in February 2015. The approximate number of people displaced by the conflict is 1.4 million as of August 2015. Yeroslav’s mother, Olga, is also a participant to a different project of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', called 'Self-Employment', first as a beneficiary, and now as a paid hotline coordinator for people seeking jobs and formation courses.
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  • Yaroslav, 10, is playing with some of the parachuted paper rockets he has built, while in the provisional home where he resides with his mother Olga, 36, as internally displaced persons. (IDPs) Yeroslav is taking part to the UNICEF-sponsored One Minute Junior project for internally displaced persons (IDPs), carried out by the local NGO 'Ukrainian Frontiers' in the city of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest, in the east. The conflict between Ukrainian army and Russia-backed separatists nearby, in the Donbass region, have left more than 10000 dead since April 2014, including over 1000 since the shaky Minsk II ceasefire came into effect in February 2015. The approximate number of people displaced by the conflict is 1.4 million as of August 2015. Yeroslav’s mother, Olga, is also a participant to a different project of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', called 'Self-Employment', first as a beneficiary, and now as a paid hotline coordinator for people seeking jobs and formation courses.
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  • Yaroslav, 10, is washing dishes in the kitchen of the provisional home where he resides with his mother Olga, 36, as internally displaced persons. (IDPs) Yeroslav is taking part to the UNICEF-sponsored One Minute Junior project for internally displaced persons (IDPs), carried out by the local NGO 'Ukrainian Frontiers' in the city of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest, in the east. The conflict between Ukrainian army and Russia-backed separatists nearby, in the Donbass region, have left more than 10000 dead since April 2014, including over 1000 since the shaky Minsk II ceasefire came into effect in February 2015. The approximate number of people displaced by the conflict is 1.4 million as of August 2015. Yeroslav’s mother, Olga, is also a participant to a different project of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', called 'Self-Employment', first as a beneficiary, and now as a paid hotline coordinator for people seeking jobs and formation courses.
    Ukraine_Unicef_Video_Feb2016_09.JPG
  • Yaroslav, 10, is playing with a remote-controlled car while sitting on the floor of the provisional home where he resides with his mother Olga, 36, as internally displaced persons. (IDPs) Yeroslav is taking part to the UNICEF-sponsored One Minute Junior project for internally displaced persons (IDPs), carried out by the local NGO 'Ukrainian Frontiers' in the city of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest, in the east. The conflict between Ukrainian army and Russia-backed separatists nearby, in the Donbass region, have left more than 10000 dead since April 2014, including over 1000 since the shaky Minsk II ceasefire came into effect in February 2015. The approximate number of people displaced by the conflict is 1.4 million as of August 2015. Yeroslav’s mother, Olga, is also a participant to a different project of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', called 'Self-Employment', first as a beneficiary, and now as a paid hotline coordinator for people seeking jobs and formation courses.
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  • Using a computer, Marina Rassokha, 50, (left) of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', is reviewing some video made by Yaroslav, 10, as his mother Olga, 36, is overlooking while inside a community meeting place in support of internally displaced persons. (IDPs) Yeroslav is taking part to the UNICEF-sponsored One Minute Junior project for internally displaced persons (IDPs), carried out by the local NGO 'Ukrainian Frontiers' in the city of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest, in the east. The conflict between Ukrainian army and Russia-backed separatists nearby, in the Donbass region, have left more than 10000 dead since April 2014, including over 1000 since the shaky Minsk II ceasefire came into effect in February 2015. The approximate number of people displaced by the conflict is 1.4 million as of August 2015. Yeroslav’s mother, Olga, is also a participant to a different project of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', called 'Self-Employment', first as a beneficiary, and now as a paid hotline coordinator for people seeking jobs and formation courses.
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  • Yaroslav, 10, is watching one of his YouTube videos, about how to put out a fire, while inside the provisional home where he resides with his mother Olga, 36, as internally displaced persons. (IDPs) Yeroslav is taking part to the UNICEF-sponsored One Minute Junior project for internally displaced persons (IDPs), carried out by the local NGO 'Ukrainian Frontiers' in the city of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest, in the east. The conflict between Ukrainian army and Russia-backed separatists nearby, in the Donbass region, have left more than 10000 dead since April 2014, including over 1000 since the shaky Minsk II ceasefire came into effect in February 2015. The approximate number of people displaced by the conflict is 1.4 million as of August 2015. Yeroslav’s mother, Olga, is also a participant to a different project of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', called 'Self-Employment', first as a beneficiary, and now as a paid hotline coordinator for people seeking jobs and formation courses.
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  • Yaroslav, 10, is using the computer while his mother Olga, 36, is showing some of the clothes she also knits to earn living, while inside the provisional home where they live as internally displaced persons. (IDPs) Yeroslav is taking part to the UNICEF-sponsored One Minute Junior project for internally displaced persons (IDPs), carried out by the local NGO 'Ukrainian Frontiers' in the city of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest, in the east. The conflict between Ukrainian army and Russia-backed separatists nearby, in the Donbass region, have left more than 10000 dead since April 2014, including over 1000 since the shaky Minsk II ceasefire came into effect in February 2015. The approximate number of people displaced by the conflict is 1.4 million as of August 2015. Yeroslav’s mother, Olga, is also a participant to a different project of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', called 'Self-Employment', first as a beneficiary, and now as a paid hotline coordinator for people seeking jobs and formation courses.
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  • Yaroslav, 10, is using the computer next to his mother Olga, 36, inside the provisional home where they reside as internally displaced persons. (IDPs) Yeroslav is taking part to the UNICEF-sponsored One Minute Junior project for internally displaced persons (IDPs), carried out by the local NGO 'Ukrainian Frontiers' in the city of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest, in the east. The conflict between Ukrainian army and Russia-backed separatists nearby, in the Donbass region, have left more than 10000 dead since April 2014, including over 1000 since the shaky Minsk II ceasefire came into effect in February 2015. The approximate number of people displaced by the conflict is 1.4 million as of August 2015. Yeroslav’s mother, Olga, is also a participant to a different project of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', called 'Self-Employment', first as a beneficiary, and now as a paid hotline coordinator for people seeking jobs and formation courses.
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  • Yaroslav, 10, is using a UNICEF video camera near the provisional home where he resides with his mother Olga, 36, as internally displaced persons. (IDPs) Yeroslav is taking part to the UNICEF-sponsored One Minute Junior project for internally displaced persons (IDPs), carried out by the local NGO 'Ukrainian Frontiers' in the city of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest, in the east. The conflict between Ukrainian army and Russia-backed separatists nearby, in the Donbass region, have left more than 10000 dead since April 2014, including over 1000 since the shaky Minsk II ceasefire came into effect in February 2015. The approximate number of people displaced by the conflict is 1.4 million as of August 2015. Yeroslav’s mother, Olga, is also a participant to a different project of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', called 'Self-Employment', first as a beneficiary, and now as a paid hotline coordinator for people seeking jobs and formation courses.
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  • Yaroslav, 10, is out with his mother Olga, 36, to use his UNICEF video camera, near the provisional home where they live as internally displaced persons. (IDPs) Yeroslav is taking part to the UNICEF-sponsored One Minute Junior project for internally displaced persons (IDPs), carried out by the local NGO 'Ukrainian Frontiers' in the city of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest, in the east. The conflict between Ukrainian army and Russia-backed separatists nearby, in the Donbass region, have left more than 10000 dead since April 2014, including over 1000 since the shaky Minsk II ceasefire came into effect in February 2015. The approximate number of people displaced by the conflict is 1.4 million as of August 2015. Yeroslav’s mother, Olga, is also a participant to a different project of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', called 'Self-Employment', first as a beneficiary, and now as a paid hotline coordinator for people seeking jobs and formation courses.
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  • Yaroslav, 10, is playing with a small photo/video-recording drone while in the kitchen of the provisional home where he resides with his mother Olga, 36, as internally displaced persons. (IDPs) Yeroslav is taking part to the UNICEF-sponsored One Minute Junior project for internally displaced persons (IDPs), carried out by the local NGO 'Ukrainian Frontiers' in the city of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest, in the east. The conflict between Ukrainian army and Russia-backed separatists nearby, in the Donbass region, have left more than 10000 dead since April 2014, including over 1000 since the shaky Minsk II ceasefire came into effect in February 2015. The approximate number of people displaced by the conflict is 1.4 million as of August 2015. Yeroslav’s mother, Olga, is also a participant to a different project of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', called 'Self-Employment', first as a beneficiary, and now as a paid hotline coordinator for people seeking jobs and formation courses.
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  • Yaroslav, 10, ready to go out and use his UNICEF video camera, is standing by the door of the provisional home where he resides with his mother Olga, 36, as internally displaced persons. (IDPs) Yeroslav is taking part to the UNICEF-sponsored One Minute Junior project for internally displaced persons (IDPs), carried out by the local NGO 'Ukrainian Frontiers' in the city of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest, in the east. The conflict between Ukrainian army and Russia-backed separatists nearby, in the Donbass region, have left more than 10000 dead since April 2014, including over 1000 since the shaky Minsk II ceasefire came into effect in February 2015. The approximate number of people displaced by the conflict is 1.4 million as of August 2015. Yeroslav’s mother, Olga, is also a participant to a different project of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', called 'Self-Employment', first as a beneficiary, and now as a paid hotline coordinator for people seeking jobs and formation courses.
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  • Mina, 35, (Right) is standing in front of her makeshift house built around one of the caves with her eldest son, 11,(Left) during a cold winter morning in Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. <br />
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A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.<br />
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After the Taliban were driven from the region by American troops, many Internally-Displaced Persons (IDPs) returned to their homes to find them destroyed. <br />
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Once a stopping point along the Silk Road between China and the Middle East, researchers think Bamyan was the site of monasteries housing as many as 5,000 monks during its peak as a Buddhist centre in the 6th and 7th centuries. <br />
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It is now a UNESCO Heritage Site since 2003.
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  • Vasilevich Kopylov, 75, (left) is standing next to his broken door with one of his neighbours, in the frontline town of Avdiivka, where he resides alone in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Julia Mosiyenko, 32, is holding one of her twin sons, Ilya and Rodion, 2, while the other is laying on a bed inside a house in the town of Gorska, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine, where they took refuge after their own home was damaged beyond repair during shelling in January 2015.
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  • Now studying pedagogy and psychology, a young Ukrainian soldier named Vadim, 24, lost his left-arm and both legs when two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) hit the armoured vehicle he was driving in February 2015. He is portrayed while residing at the 'Ukrainian Scientific Experimental Institute for Prostheses and Rehabilitation' in Kharkiv, the country's second-largest city, in eastern Ukraine.
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  • A public bus is using a temporary side road, constructed next to a collapsed bridge, laying in disrepair on the Kharkov-Rostov Highway near the city of Slavyansk, eastern Ukraine.
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  • Julia Paevska’s ambulance is approaching a small military base named ‘zamok’, Ukrainian for ‘castle’, in Luhanske, between Ukraine-controlled Bakhmut and the separatist-held town of Debaltseve.
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  • Members of ASAP are evacuating a soldier wounded by shrapnel to a helicopter in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone, carrying him to a better hospital in the city of Dnipropetrovsk.
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  • Julia Paevska is assisting a soldier that fell on a sharp glass and wounded his right leg, inside the hospital in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone.
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  • Soldiers are practising aim with a tank near their base in Myronivka, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Julia Paevska is leading a first-aid course for soldiers at a military base in Myronivka, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • The driver of a BMP (infantry fighting vehicle) is standing on top of it while on the frontline of Myronivs’kyi, where soldiers are building small makeshift bases and digging trenches to defend their positions.
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  • Julia Paevska’s cat is playing inside her temporary home at small base near the Bakhmut-Debaltseve highway, in Ukraine’s conflict zone.
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  • A woman is being evacuated to a helicopter in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone, carrying her to a better hospital in the city of Dnipropetrovsk. She was wounded when a sniper bullet hit the van she was travelling on in Zaitseve, close to the frontline, as she was bringing humanitarian aid to civilians alongside another volunteer, who was also injured.
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  • Julia Paevska is relaxing on her bed inside a small base near the Bakhmut-Debaltseve highway, in Ukraine’s conflict zone.
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  • Julia Paevska (centre) is talking with other volunteers while caressing a dog in the front-yard of an improvised ‘warehouse’ for medicines, set up in an abandoned home in the village of Klynove, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Children at a kindergarten in Myronivs’kyi, a small town near the frontline of eastern Ukraine, are performing a play to celebrate women’s day and the coming of spring.
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  • Julia Paevska is bringing presents and talking to teachers at a kindergarten in Myronivs’kyi, a small town near the frontline of eastern Ukraine.
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  • Julia Paevska is leading a first-aid course for soldiers at a military base in Myronivka, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Kobra, 17, (Right) is washing some cups to prepare tea while being helped by Hamidah, 6, (Left) near to the entrance of the cave their families live in since seven years, during a cold winter morning in Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • Sakhi Ullah, 30, is sitting in one of his neighbours' cave while Monirah, 7, (Left) and her brother Najibullah, 3, (Right) are sitting in what has been their family home since six years, in Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • Ibrahim, 67, father of 9, is sitting in the cave where he lives with his family since seven years, in Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • Milad, 2, is portrayed during a snowy winter morning in front of the cave where he lives with his family since seven years, in Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • Fatemah, 12, is walking near the cave where she lives with her family since seven years, during a cold winter morning in Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • Halemah, 9, is running after her family's donkey on the way to collect water downhill. Halemah lives in the caves with her family since seven years, in Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • Maryam, 38, (Centre) is lighting the family's wood stove inside their cave while, Hamidah, 6, (Left) and her sister Fatemah, 12, (Right) are awaiting for tea in the early hours of the morning, in Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • Maryam, 38, (Left) is sitting near the wood stove inside her family cave along two of her young daughters, Halemah, 9, (Centre) and Hamidah, 6, (Right) during the late afternoon hours when it is too cold to be spending time outside, in Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • A boy and his father are transporting gas cylinders with the use of donkeys in a small town on the road from Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, to the mountain village of Bamiyan, located on the Hindu Kush range. The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, situated 230 km northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters. The statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art. The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modelled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco. Amid widespread international condemnation, the smaller statues (55 and 39 meters respectively) were intentionally dynamited and destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban because they believed them to be un-Islamic idols. Once a stopping point along the Silk Road between China and the Middle East, researchers think Bamiyan was the site of monasteries housing as many as 5,000 monks during its peak as a Buddhist centre in the 6th and 7th centuries. It is now a UNESCO Heritage Site since 2003. Archaeologists from various countries across the world have been engaged in preservation, general maintenance around the site and renovation. Professor Tarzi, a notable An Afghan-born archaeologist from France, and a teacher in Strasbourg University, has been searching for a legendary 300m Sleeping Buddha statue in various sites between the original standing ones, as documented in the old account of a renowned Chinese scholar, Xuanzang, visiting the area in the 7th century. Professor Tarzi worked on projects to restore the other Bamiyan Buddhas in the late 1970s and has spent most of his career researching the existence of the missing giant Buddha in the valley.
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  • A Japanese woman belonging to the maintenance and restoration team in Bamiyan is working on emergency fixtures on the walls of an ancient Buddhist cave on the premises of the archaeological site. The Japanese team of experts has been visiting the town for various years to find a long-term solution to its slow but unceasing disappearance. The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, situated 230 km northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters. The statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art. The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modelled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco. Amid widespread international condemnation, the smaller statues (55 and 39 meters respectively) were intentionally dynamited and destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban because they believed them to be un-Islamic idols. Once a stopping point along the Silk Road between China and the Middle East, researchers think Bamiyan was the site of monasteries housing as many as 5,000 monks during its peak as a Buddhist centre in the 6th and 7th centuries. It is now a UNESCO Heritage Site since 2003. Archaeologists from various countries across the world have been engaged in preservation, general maintenance around the site and renovation. Professor Tarzi, a notable An Afghan-born archaeologist from France, and a teacher in Strasbourg University, has been searching for a legendary 300m Sleeping Buddha statue in various sites between the original standing ones, as documented in the old account of a renowned Chinese scholar, Xuanzang, visiting the area in the 7th century. Professor Tarzi worked on projects to restore the other Bamiyan Buddhas in the late 1970s and has spent most of his career researching the existence of the missing giant Buddha in the valley.
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  • An Afghan child is carrying flowers through a field in Bamiyan, a small Afghan town mostly populated by Hazaras. The cliff where once stood the Western Buddha (55m - 'Male') is photographed after sunset in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, situated 230 km northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters. The statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art. The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modelled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco. Amid widespread international condemnation, the smaller statues (55 and 39 meters respectively) were intentionally dynamited and destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban because they believed them to be un-Islamic idols. Once a stopping point along the Silk Road between China and the Middle East, researchers think Bamiyan was the site of monasteries housing as many as 5,000 monks during its peak as a Buddhist centre in the 6th and 7th centuries. It is now a UNESCO Heritage Site since 2003. Archaeologists from various countries across the world have been engaged in preservation, general maintenance around the site and renovation. Professor Tarzi, a notable An Afghan-born archaeologist from France, and a teacher in Strasbourg University, has been searching for a legendary 300m Sleeping Buddha statue in various sites between the original standing ones, as documented in the old account of a renowned Chinese scholar, Xuanzang, visiting the area in the 7th century. Professor Tarzi worked on projects to restore the other Bamiyan Buddhas in the late 1970s and has spent most of his career researching the existence of the missing giant Buddha in the valley.
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  • Professor Zemaryali Tarzi, (right) a notable An Afghan-born archaeologist from France and teacher in Strasbourg University, is portrayed discussing with one of his assistants on the excavation field where he is searching for a legendary 300m Sleeping Buddha. The statue should be located between the original two standing Buddhas, Afghanistan, as documented in the old account of a renowned Chinese scholar, Xuanzang, visiting the area in the 7th century. The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, situated 230 km northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters. The statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art. The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modelled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco. Amid widespread international condemnation, the smaller statues (55 and 39 meters respectively) were intentionally dynamited and destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban because they believed them to be un-Islamic idols. Once a stopping point along the Silk Road between China and the Middle East, researchers think Bamiyan was the site of monasteries housing as many as 5,000 monks during its peak as a Buddhist centre in the 6th and 7th centuries. It is now a UNESCO Heritage Site since 2003. Archaeologists from various countries across the world have been engaged in preservation, general maintenance around the site and renovation. Professor Tarzi worked on projects to restore the other Bamiyan Buddhas in the late 1970s and has spent most of his career researching the existence of the missing giant Buddha in the valley.
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  • An Afghan archaeologist is working on the maintenance and restoration of the Buddhas of Bamiyanís archaeological site in collaboration with a Japanese team of experts who has been visiting the town for various years to find a long-term solution to its slow but unceasing disappearance. The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, situated 230 km northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters. The statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art. The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modelled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco. Amid widespread international condemnation, the smaller statues (55 and 39 meters respectively) were intentionally dynamited and destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban because they believed them to be un-Islamic idols. Once a stopping point along the Silk Road between China and the Middle East, researchers think Bamiyan was the site of monasteries housing as many as 5,000 monks during its peak as a Buddhist centre in the 6th and 7th centuries. It is now a UNESCO Heritage Site since 2003. Archaeologists from various countries across the world have been engaged in preservation, general maintenance around the site and renovation. Professor Tarzi, a notable An Afghan-born archaeologist from France, and a teacher in Strasbourg University, has been searching for a legendary 300m Sleeping Buddha statue in various sites between the original standing ones, as documented in the old account of a renowned Chinese scholar, Xuanzang, visiting the area in the 7th century. Professor Tarzi worked on projects to restore the other Bamiyan Buddhas in the late 1970s and has spent most of his career researching the existence of the missing giant Buddha in the valley.
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  • The remains of the Western Buddha (55m - 'Male') are photographed in Bamiyan. The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, situated 230 km northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters. The statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art. The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modelled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco. Amid widespread international condemnation, the smaller statues (55 and 39 meters respectively) were intentionally dynamited and destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban because they believed them to be un-Islamic idols. Once a stopping point along the Silk Road between China and the Middle East, researchers think Bamiyan was the site of monasteries housing as many as 5,000 monks during its peak as a Buddhist centre in the 6th and 7th centuries. It is now a UNESCO Heritage Site since 2003. Archaeologists from various countries across the world have been engaged in preservation, general maintenance around the site and renovation. Professor Tarzi, a notable An Afghan-born archaeologist from France, and a teacher in Strasbourg University, has been searching for a legendary 300m Sleeping Buddha statue in various sites between the original standing ones, as documented in the old account of a renowned Chinese scholar, Xuanzang, visiting the area in the 7th century. Professor Tarzi worked on projects to restore the other Bamiyan Buddhas in the late 1970s and has spent most of his career researching the existence of the missing giant Buddha in the valley.
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  • A young boy is riding his donkey home after having collected water water from a small river in Bamyan, Afghanistan. In the town there is no electricity or running water. Power is only being provided by generators or solar panels. The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, situated 230 km northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters. The statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art. The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modelled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco. Amid widespread international condemnation, the smaller statues (55 and 39 meters respectively) were intentionally dynamited and destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban because they believed them to be un-Islamic idols. Once a stopping point along the Silk Road between China and the Middle East, researchers think Bamiyan was the site of monasteries housing as many as 5,000 monks during its peak as a Buddhist centre in the 6th and 7th centuries. It is now a UNESCO Heritage Site since 2003. Archaeologists from various countries across the world have been engaged in preservation, general maintenance around the site and renovation. Professor Tarzi, a notable An Afghan-born archaeologist from France, and a teacher in Strasbourg University, has been searching for a legendary 300m Sleeping Buddha statue in various sites between the original standing ones, as documented in the old account of a renowned Chinese scholar, Xuanzang, visiting the area in the 7th century. Professor Tarzi worked on projects to restore the other Bamiyan Buddhas in the late 1970s and has spent most of his career researching the existence of the missing giant Buddha in the valley.
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  • Ludmilla Palchick, 12, is holding her stepbrother of 18 months, Nikolas, while standing in a house that her family occupied in the town of Popasna, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine, after their own home was destroyed by a missile in 2014.
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  • Three men are walking in front of the destroyed City Hall in Dzerzhynsk, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Psychologist Valentina Eremicheva, 54, is leading a group therapy lesson at the 'Centre for Social and Psychological Rehabilitation' in the town of Dzerzhynsk, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Members of the charity ASAP, 'As Soon As Possible', are evacuating a soldier wounded by shrapnel to a helicopter in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone, carrying him to a better equipped hospital in the city of Dnipropetrovsk.
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  • Oleg Tkachemko, 47, (centre) a Chaplin from the 'Good News Church' in Slovakisk, is praying with soldiers and volunteers after meeting them in the town of Maryinka, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • A soldier is shooting a mini-grenade launcher towards the position of four men, caught trying to remove anti-tank mines positioned by the Ukrainian military to protect the frontline of Hranitne, near Mariupol, eastern Ukraine.
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  • Three men are walking in front of the destroyed City Hall in Dzerzhynsk, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • A public bus is using a temporary side road, constructed next to a collapsed bridge, laying in disrepair on the Kharkov-Rostov Highway near the city of Slavyansk, eastern Ukraine.
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  • Julia Paevska is hugging a girl attending kindergarten in Myronivs’kyi, a small town near the frontline of eastern Ukraine.
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  • Julia Paevska is visiting a kindergarten in Myronivs’kyi, a small town near the frontline of eastern Ukraine.
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  • Julia Paevska is having a haircut in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone.
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  • Julia Paevska is about to have a haircut in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone.
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  • After loosing his right leg to a mortar round landing next to him in July 2016, Oleksandr Pivnev, 20, is undergoing rehabilitation practises at the 'Ukrainian Scientific Experimental Institute for Prostheses and Rehabilitation' in Kharvik, the country’s second-largest city, in the east. He was wounded after only three months of serving in the army. He took the oath at 17 and now wishes to return active in the army and work as an instructor for younger soldiers.
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  • Myronivs’kyi is a small town near the frontline of eastern Ukraine.
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  • Elena Mosiychuk, (nom the guerre Maliok, or ‘Baby’) a member of ASAP, is taking a moment of calm while talking about her brother, who died in the war, as she seats in an improvised ‘warehouse’ for medicines, set up in an abandoned home in the village of Klynove, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • A soldier is talking on the radio on the frontline of Myronivs’kyi, where soldiers are building small makeshift bases and digging trenches to defend their positions.
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  • Julia Paevska is assisting a solder that fell on a sharp glass and wounded his left leg, inside the hospital in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone.
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  • Julia Paevska is checking the heartbeat of a solder that fell on a sharp glass and wounded his left leg, inside the hospital in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone.
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  • After loosing his right arm and leg to an artillery round that destroyed his shelter in July 2016, Serhiy Bilan, 23, is undergoing rehabilitation practises at the 'Ukrainian Scientific Experimental Institute for Prostheses and Rehabilitation' in Kharvik, the country’s second-largest city, located in east. He was wounded after only two months of serving in the army and now wishes to learn coding, work in IT and in computer games.
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  • Julia Paevska is visiting a small military base named ‘zamok’, Ukrainian for ‘castle’, in Luhanske, between Ukraine-controlled Bakhmut and the separatist-held town of Debaltseve.
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  • Julia Paevska is checking her radio while at the Mayorsk ASAP base near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • The Commander of the 54th Mechanised Brigade of the Ukrainian army is riding a BMP (infantry fighting vehicle) in Myronivs’kyi, in order to reach his positions on the frontline with pro-Russia separatists.
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  • Julia Paevska is relaxing on her bed inside a small base near the Bakhmut-Debaltseve highway, in Ukraine’s conflict zone.
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  • Julia Paevska is visiting a kindergarten in Myronivs’kyi, a small town near the frontline of eastern Ukraine.
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  • The Commander of the 54th Mechanised Brigade of the Ukrainian army (left) is riding a BMP (infantry fighting vehicle) in Myronivs’kyi, in order to reach his positions on the frontline with pro-Russia separatists.
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  • After loosing his right arm and leg to an artillery round that destroyed his shelter in July 2016, Serhiy Bilan, 23, is undergoing rehabilitation practises at the 'Ukrainian Scientific Experimental Institute for Prostheses and Rehabilitation' in Kharvik, the country’s second-largest city, located in east. He was wounded after only two months of serving in the army and now wishes to learn coding, work in IT and in computer games.
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  • After loosing his right leg to a mortar round landing next to him in July 2016, Oleksandr Pivnev, 20, is undergoing rehabilitation practises at the 'Ukrainian Scientific Experimental Institute for Prostheses and Rehabilitation' in Kharvik, the country’s second-largest city, in the east. He was wounded after only three months of serving in the army. He took the oath at 17 and now wishes to return active in the army and work as an instructor for younger soldiers.
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  • Julia Paevska’s ambulance is travelling towards a checkpoint set up by the army on the road between Bakhmut and Luhanske, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Hamidah, 6, (Left) and her two sisters Fatemah, 12, and Halemah, 9, are collecting water from a hand-pump situated on ground level a few hundred's meters from the cave where they live with their family since seven years, during a cold winter morning in Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • Maryam, 38, (Left) is warming her hands near the wood stove inside the cave where she live with her family since seven years, in Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • Villages are photographed from the air while travelling over the Hidu Kush range between Kabul and Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • Ms Habiba Sarabi, 54, the Governor of Bamyan Province, is portrayed while sitting at her desk. In 2005, she was appointed as Governor President Hamid Karzai, becoming the first woman to ever be a governor of any province in the country. As governor, she has announced one of her focuses will be on tourism as a source of income. The province has historically been a source of Buddhist culture. However, Bamiyan continues to remain one of the most under-developed provinces.
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  • A woman and her son are waling along the bazaar in the centre of Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • Sayed Mohammad Hussein, 22, is walking next to the entrance of the cave where he lives with his family since seven years, during a cold winter morning in Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • Monirah, 7, (Left) and her brother Najibullah, 3, (Right) are sitting in the cave where their family now live since six years in Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • Maryam, 38, (Centre) is talking to relatives in Mazar-i-Sharif, while being surrounded by her family and neighbours in front of the cave where they live since seven years, in Bamyan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population. Halema, 9, (Left) one of Maryam's daughters is having regular toothache. Due to hard conditions of living and poverty, health issue are a major concern in the region.
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  • Khadim, 72, is portrayed at the entrance of his cave. During the years Khadim's family has been able to build some walls around the original cave and make it a more comfortable home, in Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • Hamidah, 6, (Centre) is playing with a shovel while other members of the family are washing clothes or arranging morning duties, in front the cave they live since seven years, during a cold winter morning in Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • Children are playing in front of an inhabited section of the cliff where once stood the two giant Buddhas of Bamyan, in central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • Fatemah, 12, is drying dung cakes to be used as burning material near the cave where she lives with her family since seven years, during a cold winter morning in Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • Kobra, 17, is tearing while taking care of the fire due to the heavy smoke filling the cave where she now lives with her husband since seven years, in Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • Fatemah, 12, is blowing in her hands to warm up in the early hours of a cold winter morning in the cave where her family resides since seven years, in Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • Fatemah, 12, is walking out of the cave where she lives with her family since seven years, in Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • The cliff where once stood the two giant Buddhas of Bamyan is photographed at night from a nearby hill by the homonymous town, in central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras.
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