In February of 2013, photographer Chris Nunn set off for Ukraine in an attempt to learn more about his grandmother's roots. Knowing nobody there, and speaking no Ukrainian or Russian, he had little idea about what he might find. But the small city of Kulash – and soon the wider country and people – captured his imagination, and over the subsequent three years Chris made frequent trips to Ukraine from his home in Yorkshire.
Vice: How a family journey to Ukraine ended in the documentation of war

Pro-Russian separatists walk in front of the destroyed Donetsk International Airport, in Donetsk, on June 1.