A volunteer with the Razom do Peremogi ("Together to Victory") association works on camouflage netting to support the Ukrainian army in Kramatorsk, near Donbas, on January 30, 2022. #

A military instructor teaches civilians holding wooden replicas of Kalashnikov rifles, as they take part in a training session at an abandoned factory in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on February 6, 2022. #

A young woman handles a weapon during a basic combat training session for civilians, organized by the far-right Azov Special Operations Detachment of Ukraine's National Guard, in Mariupol, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on February 13, 2022. #

Civilian participants practice combat and self-defense techniques during a class run by the Tactical Civil Defense on January 31, 2022, in Kyiv. Across Ukraine, thousands of civilians are participating in such groups as Russia continues to amass tens of thousands of troops at its border with Ukraine. #

A soldier pets a dog as he prepares to distribute water to various trenches and bunkers using a small cart, after a drinking-water truck delivered the supply on February 11, 2022, in Donetsk. #

Civilians participate in a beginners combat-and-survival training course run by instructors from Ukraine's Territorial Defense units at a school in Obukhiv on February 6, 2022. #

A young woman holds a weapon during a basic combat training for civilians, organized by the far-right Azov Special Operations Detachment in Mariupol, Donetsk region, on February 13, 2022. #

Women practice self-defense techniques with replica knives during a "Survival in Urban Areas" training class organized by the Ukrainian Women’s Guard on February 5, 2022, in Kyiv. #

A woman walks by as members of the Joint Center for Control and Coordination on ceasefire of the demarcation line (JCCC) survey a crater and damage to a house from an artillery shell that landed in the village of Vrubivka, one of at least eight that hit the village on February 17, 2022, according to local officials. #

A military instructor teaches civilians holding wooden replicas of rifles, as they take part in a training session at an abandoned factory in Kyiv on January 30, 2022. #

A Ukrainian serviceman moves through the ruins of an industrial compound on a front-line position outside Avdiivka, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on February 4, 2022. #

A Ukrainian teenager and a Pentecostal pastor reinforce the basement in a center for children who dig trenches for soldiers serving on their country's eastern front, facing off with Russian-backed separatists, in the eastern Ukraine village of Chervone, on February 11, 2022. #

The student Ilya Zhelnovatskiy, 16, shows his bomb shelter, which is hidden under the floor panels of his simple kitchen, in the town of Krasnohorivka on the outskirts of the Russian-backed-separatist stronghold of Donetsk, on February 6, 2022. Since 2014, Krasnohorivka has been experiencing war with the pro-Russian separatists. Despite lulls on the front, sporadic gunfire continues to trouble the small town of 15,000 inhabitants, where authorities have asked individuals, schools, and hospitals to prepare their shelters. #

Mariana Jaglo, mother of three, holds her Ukrainian Zbroyar Z-15 rifle during an interview in the kitchen of her flat in Kyiv on January 28, 2022. As fears grow of a potential invasion by Russian troops amassed on Ukraine's border, this 52-year-old army reservist insists that she is willing to fight to defend her country. #

Anna Vasilevna, 84, sits in her home with her dog, Doll, on February 10, 2022, in Nevelske, Ukraine. Vasilevna, who receives a pension of 100 euros a month and lives with her disabled son Serhii, 56, has lived without water, gas, electricity for eight years, has been injured three times, and has partially lost her sight. Her son and Doll, along with Doll's five puppies from a month ago, are Vasilevna's main companions. Since 2014, the United Nations estimates that 13,000 people have died in the Russian-backed insurgency in eastern Ukraine and annexed Crimea. #

A member of the Georgian National Legion paramilitary volunteer unit instructs a civilian on shooting techniques during a training course at a shooting range on February 10, 2022, in Kyiv. #