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By Oksana Grytsenko | Photographs by Justyna Mielnikiewicz for The Wall Street Journal

BORODYANKA, Ukraine—Lines snake outside churches and aid stations that hand out bread and secondhand clothing. Several restaurants in Kyiv offer free meals for the elderly, whose meager pensions have been squashed by surging inflation. A group on social-media platform Telegram offers free toys, medicine, books and even underwear to people uprooted by the war.

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