“A Russian missile hit this residential building just north of Kyiv as I was photographing the funeral of a Ukrainian soldier in the city center. The air raid siren first sounded as we arrived at the cemetery, but it was nearly an hour later, after Serhiy Myronov’s body had already been lowered into the ground, that the explosions began. As a hundred or more people waited to file past the grave to toss a symbolic handful of dirt on top of the casket and say their final goodbyes, there was a distant but unmistakable boom. A minute later, another. Then the jet engine sound of a cruise missile, followed by a concussive crunch. Everyone waited patiently for their turn to pay their respects, their faces revealing how deeply aware they were of the poignancy of the moment, knowing that as they buried Serhiy, others were losing their lives nearby.

I visited the scene in Vyshhorod the next day as people salvaged their belongings and methodically began cleaning up. Unceremoniously, two men carried out the body of a woman wrapped in a rug and laid her down outside the building entrance. A few minutes later, there was a bigger commotion when an older woman on the fifth floor discovered her terrified cat hiding amid debris on her balcony. Two soldiers and a third man grabbed a carpet and positioned themselves below in case it fell as she tried to reach it, which it did. The cat landed on the carpet and scampered away, seemingly fine, and hid under a burned car. The soldiers gave each other a high five, and I had somehow caught the cat mid-fall.”

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