“I remember how I used to have fun here with my friends. And now this destroyed all my friendships with my friends. I feel all of this. In short, pain in my soul,” says Yegor, an 11-year-old boy navigating a childhood on Ukraine’s front line.
Lynsey Addario, a photographer for The New York Times, stayed with Yegor and his family for a week, documenting their attempts to carve out a fleeting sense of normalcy amid the horror of war.