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The Bucha boy whose mother died of starvation
McLaughlin meets a Ukrainian boy in Bucha whose mother died of starvation as the family sheltered in a basement during the Russian occupation — and who now visits her grave in the yard of their home.
Weeks after Russian forces withdrew from Bucha, McLaughlin met a Ukrainian boy whose mother had died while the family sheltered in their basement — a child’s account of survival and loss in the town that became synonymous with the war’s civilian atrocities.
Why it mattered
A child's-eye account of the civilian toll in Bucha — among the earliest reporting on how the occupation's youngest survivors were living with loss.
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