Lviv has been largely spared the brunt of Russia’s invasion, but even before recent...
Sergiy Petrov welds together metal beams as he builds anti-tank barricades at a police checkpoint on the outskirts of Lviv. “We will not surrender,” he says.The city has opened refugee centers in churches, schools, and other public spaces to absorb the influx of evacuees. They sleep on cots and floor mats alongside the one or two suitcases they brought from home carrying fragments of their abandoned lives.
Dania Titko and Lesya Kryvonis sort and separate the contents to prepare care packages for troops en route to or already on the front lines. One of those soldiers is Titko’s nephew, whose unit has deployed to southern Donetsk, a region of eastern Ukraine that Russian-backed separatists seized in 2014. His service in the trenches and her quiet work beneath Ascension of the Lord unites them across 750 miles in the struggle to preserve a sovereign Ukraine.
Workers swirl through the space as they pack items to ship by truck to troops and to villages that the war has cut off from the supply chain. Yuri Popovych, a coordinator at the site and the owner of a software development firm, describes his role as a patriotic calling born of grief and fury. “I represented Ukraine in sport. Now I represent it in war,” says Konovart, a Lviv native who joined the area’s territorial defense force when Russia invaded. The retired athlete and the fellow citizen soldiers in his unit patrol in 12-hour shifts around the airport, where last week four Russian cruise missiles struck, destroying an aircraft repair plant.
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