Ukrainian Soldiers, Including A Husband And Wife, Hold The Line In War-Torn Mykolayiv

Tetyana Dovhopola is helped by her fellow soldier and husband, Andriy Dovhopoliy, as she jumps out their squad's BM21 Grad multiple-rocket launcher at a position near a front line in Ukraine's Mykolayiv region on September 16.

A newly recruited volunteer, Steve Andre, a 37-year-old from Detroit, Michigan, chats with his comrades while working  as a photographer with a Ukrainian brigade at a position near a front line in the Mykolayiv region.

Andre inspects a defensive trench.

A Ukrainian soldier boils water for coffee in a trench in the Mykolyaiv region.

Ukrainian troops have a moment to relax.

Ukrainian troops play cards to pass the time.

A woman surveys her damaged apartment on September 14 at a building destroyed by a Russian strike in Mykolayiv.

A man collects belongings from a damaged apartment building in Mykolayiv.

Little remains of this Mykolayiv apartment after Russian strikes.

Ukrainian women take little notice of a destroyed house at a village in the Mykolayiv region.