Daria Mitiuk

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Constant Méheut |Evelina Riabenko |Daria Mitiuk |Finbarr O’reilly

A Russian missile strike near a playground in central Ukraine killed 19 people, including nine children. The attack was a painful reminder that a cease-fire remains as distant as ever. A woman prays at a makeshift memorial in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, where a Russian Strike on Friday killed 19 people, including nine children. A Russian missile strike near a playground in central Ukraine killed 19 people, including nine children.

Jan 15, 2025 | nytimes.com | Constant Méheut |Daria Mitiuk |Finbarr O’reilly

It was late at night and Anton Telegin was driving toward a sprawling coal mine near Ukraine's eastern front line, using darkness to evade Russian attack drones. Mr. Telegin had come to collect wages for himself and some fellow miners, as he did at the end of every month. But this trip, on the day after Christmas, felt different: Russian troops were at one of the far gates of the mine, and he wondered whether it would be his last trip to the place where he had worked for 18 years.

Aug 25, 2024 | nytimes.com | Constant Méheut |Daria Mitiuk

For several days in March 2022, the battalion of Yaryna Chornohuz, a Ukrainian poet and combat medic, faced fierce attacks from a column of Russian tanks in southeastern Ukraine. Outgunned, the soldiers repelled the first two assaults, but suffered many casualties. As Ms. Chornohuz bandaged the head of a wounded platoon commander, she said a third attack broke through, forcing the Ukrainian troops to retreat quickly, leaving behind the commander and other badly injured soldiers.

Aug 5, 2024 | telegraphindia.com | Constant Méheut |Daria Mitiuk

Bloody battle shatters dating scene for women in Ukraine as deaths, trauma and wounds beset men Constant Meheut, Daria Mitiuk Kyiv Published 05.08.24, 11:10 AM Representational image File image For the past two and a half years, Kateryna Bairachna has wanted to meet someone special. But war always gets in the way. Bairachna met a soldier, but then he was sent to the front.

Aug 4, 2024 | nytimes.com | Constant Méheut |Daria Mitiuk |Oksana Parafeniuk

For the past two and a half years, Kateryna Bairachna has wanted to meet someone special. But war always gets in the way. Ms. Bairachna met a soldier, but then he was sent to the front. She traded text messages with another man, but those fizzled out because he was in no mood to meet, fearing he might soon be drafted. On the dating app Bumble, Ms. Bairachna liked the looks of a hipster. But when she scrolled through his photographs, she noticed his amputated leg.