Yevheniia Babakova was a good dancer and enjoyed showing it on TikTok.
But the 20-year-old's true calling was helping those in need.
Yevheniia was studying pharmacy at university and dreamed of opening her own pharmacy and massage centre.
She never got the chance.
Yevheniia died in Russian air strikes in the northern Ukrainian city of Mariupol in March last year.
Andriy Dalibozhko was studying agronomy and worked part-time as a farmer, but cars were his passion.
The 23-year-old used to help his parents with chores and dreamed of moving to the city and starting a family.
His dreams ended last year when he died from Russian gunfire, alongside his father, brother and friend.
Nineteen-year-old Ivanna Obodzinska was creative and a mother of twins.
Her passion for drawing led her to study landscape design at university, but the young mother never got to fulfil her dreams.
Ivanna died alongside her children when two Russian bombs destroyed their house.
These are the dreams and memories left behind by Ukrainian students whose futures - and lives - were brought to a shattering halt by the Russian invasion of their homeland.
An exhibition honouring the memories of 36 Ukrainian university students killed in the war has opened at the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney, featuring memories of the students, told by the families and friends they left behind.
University of Sydney lecturer and exhibition co-organiser Olga Boichak hopes the stories will foster a stronger sense of solidarity with Ukraine and humanise the mass casualties experienced by the country.
"These stories ... are not some kind of collateral damage, they're not just wartime fatalities that were accidental," she told AAP.
"The deaths are part of a broader, calculated pattern of Russian brutality.
"Behind each civilian death, there was a person who had aspirations and goals in life, and that will never come to be.
"Ukraine is losing a whole generation of young people who will either not have the opportunities or have lost their lives or lost their loved ones."
Ukraine's ambassador to Australia Vasyl Myroshnychenko described the exhibition as a poignant reminder of the realities of war.
"I have a 20-year-old daughter who's a student, and she could have been one of those who got killed," he told AAP.
"This (is the) untold story of people that nobody would ever have heard of.
"It's much closer than many people imagine."
Dr Boichak said the exhibition's opening coincides with Ukraine launching a campaign to boost its university admissions, with an expected 230,000 students this year.
"These students are trying to continue their studies because life goes on," she said.
"In a way, it's scary and it's beautiful, but for many of these students that's what life is."
The exhibition opened on the same day Australia imposed more sanctions on 35 entities in Russia's defence, technology and energy sectors, and 10 individuals, including senior Russian and Belarusian officials and military personnel.
Ambassador Myroshnychenko welcomed the steps, saying it was important to keep pressure on Russian entities to prevent them engaging with other countries.
