Apr 24, 2017 7:00 AM

Gallery: The Volunteer Dentists On the Front Lines of Ukraine's War

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Volunteer dentist Vasiliy Stoyan treats a soldier.
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A soldier shows off his gold teeth.

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Ukrop Dental founder Igor Yaschenko sits at his desk, where he broadcasts Trizub Radio. He plays patriotic Ukranian rock as counter programming to pro-Russian stations.
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Igor Yaschenko slips the covers off his shoes outside one of his mobile clinics in Avdiivka, just over a mile from the front line.

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A soldier lies in a dentist chair during treatment.
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Igor Yaschenko checks his phone in a storage room at his clinic in Karlivka. The wall features the handprints volunteers leave behind in blue and yellow, the colors of the Ukrainian flag, and black and red, the colors of a nationalist paramilitary group.

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Volunteer All takes a cigarette break. Her husband is a government soldier. The day after this photo was taken, she learned he was wounded in action.
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A volunteer sculpts a gypsum model of a patient’s teeth.

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A volunteer dentist chats with Igor Yaschenko in the kitchen of his clinic.
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A pulled tooth lies beside dental tools at Ukrop Dental.

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The dentist chair is a comfy place for catnaps.

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