Olena Blizniakova

“Pavlo, can you hear me? Don’t touch your face.” In a Lviv hospital, a doctor reassures his patient just moments after surgery. Pavlo lies on a gurney, barely awake from anesthesia, instinctively reaching to feel what he now looks like. His procedure was one of 26 performed this week by US and Ukrainian surgeons as part of the “Face to Face” medical mission.