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Inside Mariupol: an amateur photographer shares the terror and hope of the war
The story of a young Ukrainian photographer who documented life under siege in Mariupol — his images offering a rare window inside the city as it was destroyed.
McLaughlin’s report on a young Ukrainian photographer who kept shooting through Mariupol’s siege — his images documenting the destruction and survival of a city cut off from outside view.
Why it mattered
While Mariupol was cut off from the world, a resident's own photographs documented what civilians were living through.
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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.
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