Ukrainian police staged a risky rescue mission in the besieged eastern city of Bakhmut this week to evacuate a six-year-old girl who had become separated from her pregnant mother.
Young Arina was found living with her grandparents in a run-down apartment building in Bakhmut, which has been pummelled by Russian forces in heavy fighting.
After trudging through snow to reach Arina, with artillery fire echoing in the distance, police officer Pavlo Dyachenko and two colleagues in combat gear drove Alina to the nearby city of Sloviansk to be reunited with her mother, Halyna Danylchenko.
"A shell exploded in our yard!" Arina, clutching a large white teddy bear, told her mother after they hugged.
"I heard that a shell exploded in your yard, that's why I got so worried," said Danylchenko, who is 24 and eight months pregnant.
They are among millions of people who have been displaced since Russia's invasion on 24 February last year.
Dyachenko said there were still about 200 children living in Bakhmut.
The city was home to about 70,000 people before the war but officials say only a few thousand residents now remain.
The police officer said authorities were meeting with families in the city to try to convince them to evacuate.
