As the Russian military unleashes the full force of its arsenal, any pretense of normality in eastern Ukraine has been ripped away. See photographs from the region, where residents face a new wave of violence.
In the weeks before Vladimir Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine, as Russian troops took up positions along the Ukrainian border, my friends and acquaintances in Kyiv went to lengths to maintain their cool. In bars and restaurants across the city, and in endless conversations at people’s homes, I heard far less alarm about the prospect of war than I did from Washington, London, Berlin, or Paris.
“What I find most remarkable is the resilience of the people there,” Neville says. “As a photographer, I’ve been in many places where people are going through incredible trauma. They would reach out to me for help, for money, to get them out, and I would say, ‘The only way I can help is to take your picture and tell your story.’ But with Ukrainians, and with some of the many hundreds of thousands of people who have been displaced, no one—not one—has asked me for anything.
“My entire family is in Russia, even though I was born here, and I consider Ukraine my homeland, too,” Karina Shyian said, in Popasna. “I have family there, and I have family here. So I’m neither against Russia nor against Ukraine. I am for peace.” Nastya, Masha, and Yana at an athletic center in Stanytsia Luhanska, where children take free gymnastics lessons. “There’s never enough time,” Tatiana Kopanaiko, an instructor, said. “I wish I could give every child some personal attention.” As fighting intensified before the Russian invasion, she continued holding practices: “We had some shelling recently, after lunch, but when we put the music on you can’t hear a thing.
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