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In Ukraine, writer-photographer Yevgenia Belorusets documents Kyiv's displaced

Belorusets' book Lucky Breaks, written in the aftermath of Russia's previous assault into Ukraine in 2014, was published in English this month. The author remains in Kyiv producing art as war rages.
Yevgenia Belorusets is a writer and photographer living in Kyiv.

Yevgenia Belorusets hasn't been sleeping much: The photographer and writer is in Kyiv.

Her parents live there and refused to leave. She's also got other close family members whose health is preventing them from going elsewhere. So, she's hunkering down in a city being assaulted by Russian forces, trying to live as normal a life as possible.

But of course, wartime warps things for those affected by it. On the one hand, everyone she's met these past few weeks, and everything she's experienced has felt immensely

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