Photo by Leonid Logvinenko | Heroiv Pratsi, a station in Kharkiv’s subway system. February 24, 2022 | In Kharkiv’s metro, families carve out a life away from the bombs.
Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv has been pummeled by strikes day and night since Russian forces attempted to seize it at the start of the invasion. The bitter fighting has reduced the city of 1.5 million to a tangle of blown-out shops and smoldering apartment blocks, and it has forced families underground where they are sheltering in the metro.