A 9-year-old girl with Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, who was born in Venezuela, but who fluently speaks only English and is in the gifted program at her school, watches TV in her family’s apartment, April 5, 2025, in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
In civilian life, Rubliuk was a farmer. In the military, he became an engineer conducting reconnaissance missions. During one such mission in November 2022, an unexploded munition detonated beneath him in the southern Kherson region. He lost both arms, his leg was severely injured and his vision was affected.Andrii Rubliuk, a senior sergeant with a Ukrainian intelligence unit who lost both arms and a leg in combat, holds a rifle during military training near Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Andrii Rubliuk, a senior sergeant with a Ukrainian intelligence unit who lost both arms and a leg in combat, holds a rifle during military training near Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)Despite this, he returned to the fight in the spring of 2024, taking on a multifaceted role — training new soldiers and monitoring enemy drones on the battlefield.“Fighting with arms and legs is something anyone can do. Fighting without them — that’s a challenge,” Rubliuk said. “But only those who take on challenges and fight through them are truly alive.”
Before the war, Vysotskyi, 42, was a top manager at one of Ukraine’s largest banks. On the night of his injury in November 2023, he wasn’t supposed to be on a drone-launch mission. But as heavy rains turned the battlefield into a swamp, he took a detour and stepped on a mine.The explosion was instantaneous. When he looked down at his left leg, all he saw was bone.
Maksym Vysotskyi, 42, a Ukrainian Drone Unit Commander of the 82nd assault brigade smokes a cigar during a drone test flight in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Feb. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Maksym Vysotskyi, 42, a Ukrainian Drone Unit Commander of the 82nd assault brigade smokes a cigar during a drone test flight in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Feb. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)“The women’s forest is our kitchen,” said Berta Sanyi, another woman from Enggros village.
A women’s mangrove forest in an Indonesian village is under threat from pollution and local development. Biodiversity loss is shrinking the forest and stunting plant and animal life. The women who work the forest fear an important part of their traditions and livelihoods will be lost forever.That morning, another woman joined the group looking for firewood, hauling dry logs onto her boat. And three other women joined on a rowboat.
Women from the next village, Tobati, also have a women’s forest nearby. The two Indigenous villages are only 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) apart, and they’re culturally similar, with Enggros growing out of Tobati’s population decades ago. In the safety of the forest, women of both villages talk about issues at home with one another and share grievances away from the ears of the rest of the village.Debora Sanyi stands chest deep in water as she collects clams in a mangrove forest where only women are permitted to enter in Jayapura, Papua province, Indonesia on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)