At a cemetery in Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv, Ukraine, photographs affixed to headstones are fading away after being exposed to rain, sun and frost since the war began nearly a year ago.
At a cemetery in Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv, photographs affixed to headstones are almost imperceptible. Exposed to rain, sun and frost since the war began nearly a year ago, the graveside portraits' once-bright hues are fading away and yellow stains and mold are encroaching.
After Russian forces' brutal monthlong occupation of Irpin, Ukrainian soldiers retook the city at the end of March after fierce urban fighting. Residents there -- and in Bucha and Hostomel, too -- gave horrific accounts to prosecutors and journalists of violence and death suffered at the hands of Russian soldiers.
A faded portrait of Anatoly Olofunskyi, 39, sits on his grave at a cemetery in Irpin, Ukraine, on the outskirts of Kyiv, on Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. Another portrait of Anatoly sits in his mother's bedroom. Ludmilla starts her day by saying"Good morning, son." At night he appears in her dreams and tells her not to cry.
At another gravestone nearby, a framed portrait of Dina Pivin hangs above the snow, her eyes, mouth and cheeks well-defined even as the rest of the image loses clarity. After the block her apartment is on was shelled, the building manager grew concerned because he hadn't heard from her. He asked one of the cleaners to check on her. The man arrived and found the key still lodged in Pivin's door, and the woman lying on the ground.
A worn-out portrait of Volodymyr Mandrik, 83, sits on his grave at a cemetery in Irpin, Ukraine, on the outskirts of Kyiv, on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. His wife, Halyna, had photos of her husband and herself printed and framed long before the war. She wanted to make things easy for their children in the event of their deaths. The photos would be there, in plastic bags ready to be nailed to the cross when their time came. He was buried on March 22, 2022.
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