Irina Shopina (left) and Ksenia Ponomarjova, volunteers from Kyiv, get ready for the military escort to Avdiivka. Their mission, to deliver medical aid to the elderly living on the front line.

The facade of the Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Plant has been heavily damaged during the war. The plant is considered one of the most important in all of Ukraine.

Irina Shopina (left) and Veronika Korol of ICF Res.Publica, a Kyiv-based volunteer group, check their patient lists before delivering medical aid to elderly in the front line town of Avdiivka, Ukraine.

Veronika Korol of ICF Res.Publica, a Kyiv-based volunteer group, hands over a bag of medicines to a woman at the hospital in Avdiivka.

Kyiv-based voulnteers Ksenia Ponomarjova, Irina Shopina, and Veronika Korol look for the home of an elderly woman with local doctor Dr. Sergei Yakovlevich in Avdiivka, Ukraine.