Nataliia Chernichenko, 69, from Donetsk, Ukraine. When the war started in 2022 with the bombing of the Donetsk airport, she and her husband and their 26 year-old daughter, felt that life just stopped. On 24 February, when the shooting started, there was fire everywhere. Nataliia left on 26 March on an evacuation train to Germany. A couple of months later, her husband drove to Germany to meet her and they stayed there until December 2022, then came to England through the Homes for Ukraines cheme. “I finally feel safe.”
Photographed in London, England, 11 June 2024.