Życie młodych Ukraińców - NYT

Kateryna Plechystova with her husband, Oleh Krisenko, in Truskavets, Ukraine, Sept. 15, 2023. In May, in the final act of the battle for Mariupol, Rus...

Family photos of Maryna Bodnar; her husband, Vitalik, who died after being deployed to Mariupol; and their children, Matviy and Gennady, at their home...

Maryna Bodnar, 24, with her children, Matviy and Gennady, at home in Chernihiv, Ukraine, April 13, 2023. Her husband, Vitalik was deployed to Mariupol...

Maryna Bodnar works on candles in her workshop in Chernihiv, Ukraine, April 12, 2023. Her emotions swing between grief and a faith that one day might...

Maryna Bodnar, 24, with her children, Matviy and Gennady, at home in Chernihiv, Ukraine, April 11, 2023. "I don't feel strong, " Bodnar said. "But I a...

Maryna Bodnar, 24, with her children, Matviy and Gennady, at home in Chernihiv, Ukraine, April 11, 2023. "I'm with my kids 24/7 and I have to manage e...

Oleksandr Budko, 27, known as Teren, at his friend's home where he is currently staying in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 10, 2023. "I started to think of my si...

Oleksandr Budko, 27, known as Teren, at his friend's home where he is currently staying in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 10, 2023. "There were ambiguous emotio...

Kateryna Plechystova, 25, at home in Vyshneve, Ukraine, April 9, 2023. For more than a year, Plechystova's life was defined by an absence. (Laetitia V...

Mykhailo Panchyshyn, 25, left, and Ioann Zenkov at Mykhailo's home in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 8, 2023. "To get into the army, we wrote a report, ‘Please...

Oleksandr Budko, 27, known as Teren, at his friend's home where he is currently staying in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 7, 2023. "I always had this internal s...

Kateryna Plechystova, second from right, with friends in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 6, 2023. One day in May, Plechystova was told her husband, Oleh Krisenko...

Oleksandr Budko, 27, known as Teren, tests new sports prostheses with a friend in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 6, 2023. In his teens, Budko read stories about...

Emilia Devoe, 18, and her boyfriend, Denys, watch a movie at home in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 1, 2023. Missing Denys, Emilia found that she was unable to...

Oleksandr Budko, second from left, at his friend's birthday party in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 5, 2023. After a long period in hospitals and in a rehabilit...

Ruslan Kushka works at a drugstore in Bucha, Ukraine, April 4, 2023. In the years when his dreams still felt possible, Kushka set his heart on studyin...

Ruslan Kushka works out with a friend at a gym in Bucha, Ukraine, April 4, 2023. In the midst of a national emergency, a lost opportunity to study abr...

Ruslan Kushka walks his dog in Bucha, Ukraine, April 2, 2023. "Because of last year's bitter experience, there is a bit of desperation," said Kushka....

Ruslan Kushka, 23, bathes his dog in Bucha, Ukraine, April 4, 2023. His redrawn path led him last fall to Bucha, where this spring he began working at...

Emilia Devoe, 18, travels to see her boyfriend's concert in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 2, 2023. "A part of my youth and my easiness have been stolen," said...

Ruslan Kushka, 23, at home in Bucha, Ukraine, April 2, 2023. Trapped in the gap between disappointment and duty, Kushka has wrestled with depression a...

Mykhailo Panchyshyn, center, with friends in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 1, 2023. Service in Bakhmut came at a cost: Under days of heavy shelling, he and his...

Emilia Devoe, 18, and her boyfriend, Denys, at a lake near their home in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 1, 2023. When the couple met at a birthday party, their...

Mykhailo Panchyshyn, right, sings patritotic songs while watching a karaoke channel on TV with friends in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 1, 2023. "Our generatio...

Emilia Devoe, 18, and her boyfriend, Denys, at home in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 1, 2023. The war's presence is unrelenting and has forced them to embrace...

Kateryna Plechystova, 25, at home in Vyshneve, Ukraine, March 26, 2023. "I strongly believe there will be a breaking point in this war, mainly because...

Kateryna Plechystova, who works as a physical therapist, with a patient in Vyshneve, Ukraine, April 26, 2023. In the months while her husband was miss...

Mykhailo Panchyshyn, 25, left, works on a song with a friend in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 25, 2023. Mykhailo, a previous winner of Ukraine's version of the...

Emilia Devoe, center, meets with a friend before a concert in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 25, 2023. As Moscow's troops advanced on Kyiv in the war's first we...

Mykhailo Panchyshyn, left, performs in a charity concert to raise funds for the military, in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 17, 2023. Despondent and distrustful...