Before you is a unique photographic record — a visual testimony.
An intimate account of how pain can become prayer, and tears a silent cry to the heavens.

Mariia Universaliuk has captured more than Ukrainian women — she has captured their inner lives.
They do not ask for comfort, nor do they wait for happiness. They pray — not for themselves, but for those standing between life and death.

Their husbands, sons, fathers and grandsons are there, on the front line.
And here, mothers, wives and sisters stand beside The Cross of Peace, holding on to it as to their last hope.

If you still have tears left, look into their eyes — and allow your soul to respond.

— MFF