Ukrainians are “risking their lives to help us document their homeland being torn apart”. ronhaviv describes the destruction and resilience he has witnessed since the start of the war
o many people outside Ukraine, the war is quickly becoming a story of statistics: 4m refugees, thousands killed, 130 dead children, according to government figures. These numbers are hard for the average person to comprehend. Apathy will soon take over. I saw this in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s human nature. For a few weeks we are glued to the coverage on our phones and the, then what was once shocking becomes normal.
Many fled the capital. Initially I spent a lot of time at the railway station. There were hundreds there, mostly women and children, carrying pets and suitcases. I took a photo of a young mother waving goodbye to her husband as he stood on the platform. As the train doors closed, the woman broke down in tears. Her husband watched as the train pulled out. He told me he was just happy that his wife and child were going to be safe.People from Kyiv’s suburbs tried desperately to reach the station.
When there’s an attack in Kyiv, squads of volunteers clean up the scene. Mostly this means picking up shattered glass. I took photographs of one team who tidied up a school after it had been hit. The window frames and doors were damaged, and the pink carpet in one classroom was covered in glass, but the tiles on the wall of the entrance hall, which depicted a rabbit, remained intact. Some of the children’s school books were still open.
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