To date, Ukraine's State Emergency Service (DSNS) has managed to clear explosives from only about 2 percent of the Holy Mountains park, which is dotted with small settlements.

Here, atop Ukraine’s tallest peak, the war fades away. Air raid sirens are nonexistent, and missiles are scarce. Deep in the Carpathian Mountains, the silence is deafening.

No air raid sirens on Ukraine’s tallest mountain, just the promise of a future. Tens of thousands climb Mount Hoverla every year. During the war, it has become a pilgrimage for those seeking to ...

In this image provided by Salvamont Maramures, a Romanian mountain rescue service, Peach the cat peers from the jacket of its owner, 28 year-old Vladislav Duda from Ukraine, in the Carpathian ...