EditorialVolunteers with the organization Vostok-SOS carry Zinaida Riabtseva, who is 77 and blind, down five flights of stairs as she is evacuated from the front-line city of Bakhmut, Ukraine, on May 30, 2022. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers with the organization Vostok-SOS carry Zinaida Riabtseva, 77, down five flights of stairs as she is evacuated from the front-line city of Bakhmut, Ukraine, on May 30, 2022. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers from Britain and Ukraine working with the organization Vostok-SOS carry Zinaida Riabtseva, who is 77, blind and struggled to walk down five flights of stairs, during an evacuation in Bakhmut, Ukraine, on May 30, 2022. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers from Britain and Ukraine working with the organization Vostok-SOS carry Zinaida Riabtseva, who is 77, blind and struggled to walk down five flights of stairs, during an evacuation in Bakhmut, Ukraine, on May 30, 2022. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers from Britain and Ukraine working with the organization Vostok-SOS carry Zinaida Riabtseva, who is 77, blind and struggled to walk down five flights of stairs, during an evacuation in Bakhmut, Ukraine, on May 30, 2022. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialZinaida Kovalova and her partner, Ihor Piskun, salvage what they can from their destroyed apartment in Chernihiv, Ukraine, May 17, 2022. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialZinaida Kostenko, 67, tends to her flower bed next to a bomb crater in the village of Moshchun, north of Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday, May 16, 2022. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)