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I snapped this image from the automobile window on the highway to Kyiv from western Ukraine final month. My Ukrainian colleagues and I had simply been reporting from the city of Ternopil, which was focused by an early-morning Russian missile assault.
It had been a scene of such sorrow and desolation. The assault blasted the highest off an residence constructing, killing greater than 35 individuals, together with kids. The constructing’s jagged bricks stood towards the empty sky. I noticed garments had been blown into the bushes.
Across the similar time, a U.S.-backed peace proposal broadly seen as favoring Russian pursuits got here to mild.
The heaviness of the second weighed exhausting. But as I rode via the snowy countryside on that Sunday morning, I noticed individuals heading to church, in all probability as they’d executed for hundreds of years.
I used to be struck by the quiet magnificence and, given the circumstances, the disappointment of the scene. However it additionally conveyed a resilience. Towards overwhelming odds, the Ukrainians had been persevering with on with their lives.
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