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missiles , and bullets he had witnessed before he and his mother escaped . The trauma had left him unable to walk . He took a while to warm up to us , but soon was smiling , posing for pictures and through Andriy telling us he wanted to ride a motorcycle when he grew up . As we said our goodbyes , the air alert howled once more and the chilling realisation that here , in this hospital , these injured children were not even safe rang loud and clear .
Within a few days we were dropping the motorcycles back in Munich . Kiran was heading back to his young family in Paris , and I would make my way back to the United States . With notebooks full , and hard drives containing thousands of images from our time in Ukraine there was much work to do . Kiran ’ s images would go on to win a Pollux Gala world award , and my foundation has been steadily raising money and sponsoring projects inside Ukraine ever since . I went back again in the summer of 2023 for five weeks , riding over 5,000 more kilometres alone , and will one day share my journey that saw me visit with various aid agencies doing incredible work inside this war-ravaged country as well as numerous other stories at a later date .
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