This is Yuriy Sheptitsky, a veteran and former commander of an assault unit.
When I asked Yuriy how the experience of war had changed him, he said that he had started to notice things he hadn’t been aware of before. He began to see small things such as leaves slowly turning green and sunlight shining through them. He began to see the good side of things more.
View from my window, Kyiv, summer 2025
One of many mornings when the light of dawn mingled with the smoke rising above the city after the night’s shelling
