Olena Shumakova, 43, from Kadiivka, Ukraine, in the eastern Luhanska region. The family was displaced after the first Russian military incursion into that region in 2014 and moved to Kyiv. A week before the 2022 invasion, her husband, an officer, was called up to fight and couldn’t go back to see the family before she left for England with their two daughters; he remains in Ukraine. “The destiny of wives of the soldiers means that we cannot do what we want to do. It is done with victory in mind.” Photographed in Chalfont St Peter, England, 29 February 2024.