CHICAGO (WLS) -- Tom Doody came back from a 10-day trip to Ukraine just one month ago.

Nothing about the journey was straightforward. After the rail lines were bombed just days before he was to travel, plans changed, forcing him to make the trip by bus from the border with Moldova. But for the self-taught photographer, it was all worth it, as he endeavored to capture what life in Ukraine's capital city and its surrounding areas is like today.

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Five thousand miles away from Kyiv are the snow-covered streets of Chicago's Ukrainian Village.

Doody spoke of his trip in his girlfriend's art studio there.

"I'm not a war photographer. I don't do bombs and trenches. I wanted to meet the people. I wanted to personally experience what they

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