Ukrainians have flocked to resorts nestled in the Carpathian Mountains, largely spared the worst of the war, for a respite. One soldier recuperating there explored what it means to heal.

Rising along the line where eastern and western Europe divide, a forested mountain range is home to shepherds, villages and plenty of bears.

The Carpathian Mountains reside in the western part of the country. “I know a lot of us are thinking about the people of Ukraine right now,” said Renton History Museum Director Elizabeth Stewart.

Ukraine might be fending off a full-scale Russian invasion but a brand new holiday resort is taking shape in the western ...

Tourists ski near the Chornohora mountain range, part of the Carpathian Mountains, in western Ukraine on Feb. 21, 2021, one year before the Russian invasion.

That’s how I found myself in January heading to the Carpathian Mountains, an area just about as far away as a person can get from the front line of the east while still remaining in the country.

Peach the cat peers from the jacket of its owner, 28 year-old Vladislav Duda from Ukraine, in the Carpathian Mountains, northern Romania, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024 after they were rescued from a deep ...

The Carpathian Mountains are a wildly popular domestic getaway spot for Ukrainians in the summer. But Russia's invasion has deeply affected the tourism industry there this year.

Ukraine might be fending off a full-scale Russian invasion but a brand new holiday resort is taking shape in the western Carpathian Mountains. It will offer 25 hotels with more than 5,000 rooms ...

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 ...

VELIATYNO, Ukraine — Soon after Russia’s invasion in February 2022, Ukraine beefed up its border defenses near this Carpathian mountain village. But the extra patrols and reels of barbed wire ...