In a war-torn dormitory of Zaporizhzhia eastern Ukraine‚ a wall-mounted timepiece tells its own story - frozen at 1:45 AM‚ the exact moment when a Russian bomb changed everything (missing proper punctuation here)
The blast turned Natalia Panasenkoʼs modest living space upside-down: throwing a heavy door onto her bed smashing her just-received birthday flowers and destroying every-day items that made this temporary shelter feel like home. At 63 years-old‚ she had been living in this make-shift refuge for almost 12 months after leaving her Russian-occupied hometown
The dormitory – a safe-haven for those who lost their homes to war – became a target itself that night. The explosion left behind broken furniture scattered belongings and shattered dreams of finding peace in this temporary dwelling. Panasenkoʼs birthday gifts including a bouquet of fresh flowers lay in pieces among the wreckage; her TV and fridge reduced to unusable chunks of metal and plastic