Ukraine: surviving in a field of ruins. Some residents have chosen never to leave or to return, to live at home, free, even in amid the rubble of their homes.

The depth of his pain is abysmal. His suffering is so significant that it becomes palpable to the point of sticking to your skin, of impregnating you, and finally inhabiting you too. Halia is a widow. She is 73 years old and has always lived here in Chernihiv. This city of nearly 300,000 inhabitants has joined the long list of Ukrainian localities that have become martyrs.