A Russian missile in Kherson changed lives. The photos show the consequences.

In the immediate aftermath of an attack, the horrors of the Ukrainian war, the random deaths and shattered lives take on a deeper meaning when seen from near .
KHERSON, Ukraine — Explosions were heard in the center of the city of Kherson, recently liberated from Russian occupation. A quick check with a Ukrainian first response team confirmed it was a Russian missile attack and had targeted a tiny settlement of little or no strategic value on the banks of the wide Dnipro River. We quickly left.
There is a dark monotony in many daily reports of the war in Ukraine. A town or village is hit by shells or missiles, a count is made of the dead and wounded, usually accompanied by a comment from a local official. And the world shrugs its shoulders and moves on, often oblivious to the terrible impact on families and lives.
The following photographs capture reality - character random death, often life-changing violence and suffering in a single terrible moment - which is often overlooked in these attacks.
ImageA neighbor rushing past the burning house of Anatoliy Anatoliyovych.
Russia sent half a dozen rockets on the settlement, part of the city of Kherson, that day. Immediately afterwards, residents rushed, sometimes sprinting, to search for victims, aiding the injured and putting out the raging fires. It seemed like everyone was on the move.
ImageA Ukrainian firefighter fought a fire at his M. Anatoliyovych's house.
It soon emerged that one person had been killed, Dmytro Dudnyk, whose body lay just outside the door of the house of her stepmother, Svitlana Zubova. She was getting ready to cook lunch, she said, and Mr. Dudnyk had just brought her a chocolate bar to share over post-meal tea, when the rockets slammed into the neighborhood.

One exploded in his yard, knocking out Mr. Dudnyk and ultimately killing him. As neighbors rushed with buckets of water to douse the flames of two nearby houses, he lay in a pool of blood on his floor.
ImagePeople arrive at the scene with buckets and buckets to help fight the fire at a neighbor's house, Pavlo.
Mr. Dudnyk, 38, worked as a sailor on a freighter, but his contract was suspended because of the war. He had sent his wife and two daughters, 8 and 13, to live with his parents in the nearby town of Mykolaiv just two weeks earlier, as security around Kherson deteriorated following the withdrawal of Russian troops. who started firing missiles and artillery shells into the across the river.
But he had insisted on staying in Kherson to to occupy...

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A Russian missile in Kherson changed lives. The photos show the consequences.

In the immediate aftermath of an attack, the horrors of the Ukrainian war, the random deaths and shattered lives take on a deeper meaning when seen from near .

KHERSON, Ukraine — Explosions were heard in the center of the city of Kherson, recently liberated from Russian occupation. A quick check with a Ukrainian first response team confirmed it was a Russian missile attack and had targeted a tiny settlement of little or no strategic value on the banks of the wide Dnipro River. We quickly left.

There is a dark monotony in many daily reports of the war in Ukraine. A town or village is hit by shells or missiles, a count is made of the dead and wounded, usually accompanied by a comment from a local official. And the world shrugs its shoulders and moves on, often oblivious to the terrible impact on families and lives.

The following photographs capture reality - character random death, often life-changing violence and suffering in a single terrible moment - which is often overlooked in these attacks.

ImageA neighbor rushing past the burning house of Anatoliy Anatoliyovych.

Russia sent half a dozen rockets on the settlement, part of the city of Kherson, that day. Immediately afterwards, residents rushed, sometimes sprinting, to search for victims, aiding the injured and putting out the raging fires. It seemed like everyone was on the move.

ImageA Ukrainian firefighter fought a fire at his M. Anatoliyovych's house.

It soon emerged that one person had been killed, Dmytro Dudnyk, whose body lay just outside the door of the house of her stepmother, Svitlana Zubova. She was getting ready to cook lunch, she said, and Mr. Dudnyk had just brought her a chocolate bar to share over post-meal tea, when the rockets slammed into the neighborhood.

One exploded in his yard, knocking out Mr. Dudnyk and ultimately killing him. As neighbors rushed with buckets of water to douse the flames of two nearby houses, he lay in a pool of blood on his floor.

ImagePeople arrive at the scene with buckets and buckets to help fight the fire at a neighbor's house, Pavlo.

Mr. Dudnyk, 38, worked as a sailor on a freighter, but his contract was suspended because of the war. He had sent his wife and two daughters, 8 and 13, to live with his parents in the nearby town of Mykolaiv just two weeks earlier, as security around Kherson deteriorated following the withdrawal of Russian troops. who started firing missiles and artillery shells into the across the river.

But he had insisted on staying in Kherson to to occupy...