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Stories - Column: 30 miles from the front line; life grows in destruction as Ukraine continues to fight - Make it stand out SONNY TAPIA, Independent Record Maksym Pozhydaiev, project manager, reaches for tourniquets hanging on a wire that are deemed bad quality Nov. 28, 2025, inside a military storage unit in Kharkiv, Ukraine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/694ea0da80b4b055aee938b9/38d5d2f1-1e5e-4ca9-ac5c-f83925722b0b/Ukriane+N27-9.jpg Stories - Column: 30 miles from the front line; life grows in destruction as Ukraine continues to fight - Make it stand out SONNY TAPIA, Independent Record Gold-lined walls of the Uspens’kyy Sobor, or Dormition Cathedral, rise to the top of its ceiling Nov. 27, 2025, in the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/694ea0da80b4b055aee938b9/2efb15e0-0edd-47b8-b84d-90cee5ac517f/IMG_8811.JPG Stories - Column: 30 miles from the front line; life grows in destruction as Ukraine continues to fight - Make it stand out SONNY TAPIA, Independent Record Sonny Tapia, photographer for the Helena Independent Record, poses for a photo atop a bell tower at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra Nov. 27, 2025 with the "Mother" Monument in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/694ea0da80b4b055aee938b9/45b9af5a-9d0a-456e-b28c-dd059b9b6234/Ukriane+N20-8.jpg Stories - Column: 30 miles from the front line; life grows in destruction as Ukraine continues to fight - Make it stand out SONNY TAPIA, Independent Record A woman grieves over the grave of a soldier Nov. 20, 2025 in Lviv, Ukraine as flags wave in the wind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/694ea0da80b4b055aee938b9/4524722f-c9c1-452b-a2bf-f4a1f39468f0/Ukriane+N22-7.jpg Stories - Column: 30 miles from the front line; life grows in destruction as Ukraine continues to fight - Make it stand out SONNY TAPIA, Independent Record A man carries a punching bag through the streets of Zhytomyr, Ukraine, on Nov. 22, 2025. 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