Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly collection during which NPR’s worldwide staff shares moments from their lives and work all over the world.
I snapped this image from the automotive window on the highway to Kyiv from western Ukraine final month. My Ukrainian colleagues and I had simply been reporting from the city of Ternopil, which was focused by an early-morning Russian missile assault.
It had been a scene of such sorrow and desolation. The assault blasted the highest off an condo constructing, killing greater than 35 folks, together with youngsters. The constructing’s jagged bricks stood towards the empty sky. I noticed garments had been blown into the timber.
Across the identical time, a U.S.-backed peace proposal extensively seen as favoring Russian pursuits got here to mild.
The heaviness of the second weighed exhausting. But as I rode via the snowy countryside on that Sunday morning, I noticed folks heading to church, in all probability as they’d performed for hundreds of years.
I used to be struck by the quiet magnificence and, given the circumstances, the unhappiness of the scene. However it additionally conveyed a resilience. In opposition to overwhelming odds, the Ukrainians had been persevering with on with their lives.
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