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saving lidiia
Lidiia Oleksandrivna, of Kramatorsk, 90 years old. (Submitted photo.)
Sometimes, I like to sit and think about the most meaningful people and moments of my life, and trace back how they happened. The small connections that led me to that...
no place like home
Vadim, my friendly cab driver at 6 a.m. one Monday morning in Kyiv. March 2026.
Out of all of the cab drivers working in Kyiv early that Monday morning, there could not have been more than one wearing a Winnipeg Jets shirt; and of all...
life in-between
One last dip in the Dnipro River, going on no sleep the night after a massive missile attack and 12 hours before I left Kyiv. August 28, 2025.
I said goodbye to my love just before dawn, I don’t remember the weather, in my mind it was rai...
picking up sticks
Survivors of an apartment block strike on Kyiv, including a man (right) with a bandaged head from shrapnel wounds, sit on a playground bench and watch emergency crews search for bodies in a building smashed by a missile. June 17, 2025.
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mornings after
A teen girl grieves at a memorial to those killed in a ballistic missile strike on Kyiv. April 25, 2025.
It was almost 1 a.m. when the attack started. The drones came first, followed by the oddly soothing rat-tat-tat of anti-aircraft guns...
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