Yuliia Shylova, 28, from Lyman, Ukraine, in the Donbas region, experienced the first incursion by Russia in 2014. After university in Kharkiv, she started a career in tourism in Turkey and Vietnam. Her father encouraged her to find her life away from Ukraine. She returned during the pandemic to be with her parents and an ailing grandmother. After the 2022 invasion, she made it to England. “Our house was bombed, my parents had fled the week before, they left everything.” Her grandfather was the last to leave their village after her grandmother died.
Photographed in London, England, 29 April 2024.