EDITOR’S NOTE: Journalist Alisa Sopova and photojournalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind have been covering the conflict in Ukraine since it started in April 2014. In December 2020, Sopova returned to her hometown of Donetsk in the rebel-held east, before the two of them reported from villages and towns along the government-controlled side of the front line in January. They found an increasingly permanent-looking border closure, families and communities divided, and those cut off on the rebel-held side forced to accept new Russian citizenship realities. As the war enters its eighth year this week, Sopova’s first-hand accounts and Taylor-Lind’s photographs look at the personal consequences of the chronic conflict, drawing on their recent trips and their in-depth reporting over seven years of war.