The Russian war of aggression in Ukraine forced the Potsdam photographer Frank Gaudlitz to extend his long-term project on the development of post-Soviet society, which he has pursued since 1988, by a new chapter. For this he travelled in 2022/23 to the former Union republics Moldova, Georgia and Armenia, affected by large refugee movements, which now as independent states grant refuge to Ukrainians and Russians alike, and portrayed there people who had to or wanted to leave their homeland with an uncertain future.