[tse nashe] means it’s ours in Ukrainian. It’s our land, our cities, our soldiers, our artillery, our homes, our families, our culture, our freedom, our country.

A soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces crosses the Bakhmutovka river on a damaged bridge amid artillery fights on December 20, 2022 in Bakhmut, Ukraine. © Pierre Crom

Skala (2R), the commander of an Ukrainian intelligence battalion, analyses the frontline with his officers on December 28, 2022 in Bakhmut, Ukraine. © Pierre Crom

A Russian missile explodes as soldiers of a Ukrainian intelligence battalion evacuate a local resident from the frontline with an armoured vehicle on December 28, 2022 in Bakhmut, Ukraine. © Pierre Crom

The dead body of a local resident hit by shrapnel lies in the street under a blanket amid artillery fights on December 20, 2022 in Bakhmut, Ukraine. © Pierre Crom

Soldiers of the 59th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fire grad missiles on Russian occupying forces on December 30, 2022 near Donetsk, Ukraine. © Pierre Crom

Soldiers of the 59th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fire grad missiles on Russian occupying forces on December 30, 2022 near Donetsk, Ukraine. © Pierre Crom

Ukrainian soldier Ruslan is attended to on an operation table after being wounded by shrapnel on the frontline in New York, on December 21, 2022 in Toretsk, Ukraine. © Pierre Crom

A worker repairs the roof of a church damaged by artillery shelling on December 22, 2022 in Bohorodychne, Ukraine. © Pierre Crom

Children sleep in a Christian Orthodox Church during the Sunday mass on January 8, 2023 in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. © Pierre Crom

Tatiana recovers her traditional Ukrainian dress from the rubbles of her house on January 5, 2023 in Partyzanske, Ukraine. The village was bombed in September 2022. © Pierre Crom

The interior of the House of Culture damaged by artillery shelling on January 4, 2023 in Posad-Pokrovske. © Pierre Crom

20 Russian military trucks transporting ammunitions were destroyed on January 13, 2023 in Vesele, Ukraine. © Pierre Crom

Ukrainian servicemen recover the remains of Russian soldiers from frozen pools of mud on the frontline amid artillery shelling on January 12, 2023 in Kurylivka, Ukraine. © Pierre Crom

A mined sunflower field on the former Russian frontline on January 12, 2023 in Buhaivka, Ukraine. © Pierre Crom

Andrey cries next to the dead body of his friend Alexander, who was killed by shrapnel following intense Russian artillery shelling on January 9, 2023 in Kherson, Ukraine. © Pierre Crom

 A vehicle marked with the Russian war symbol Z on a field allegedly mined on January 5, 2023 in Yelyzavetivka, Ukraine. © Pierre Crom

Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fire a M777 cannon supplied by the US on Russian military targets on January 9, 2023 near Kherson. © Pierre Crom

Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fire a M777 cannon supplied by the US on Russian military targets on January 9, 2023 near Kherson. © Pierre Crom

Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fire a M777 cannon supplied by the US on Russian military targets on January 9, 2023 near Kherson. © Pierre Crom

Local residents watch emergency workers searching for survivors in the rubbles of a bombed residential building on January 15, 2023 in Dnipro, Ukraine. © Pierre Crom

Katya Zelenskaya is rescued from under the rubbles of a bombed residential building on January 15, 2023 in Dnipro, Ukraine. The remains of her one year-old child and husband will be recovered the next day. © Pierre Crom