Can – and should – Ukraine rebuild while the war still rages?
In her fourth-floor apartment, down a dark, tight hallway, Olena Kolinovych walks into the room she no longer uses.
It’s piled with mementos – a model John Deere tractor on a shelf, a Chinese fan on the wall. She takes a jacket from a hanger and points to a tear, showing white synthetic down. Shrapnel did that, she says.
On the far end of the room there’s a broken wall exposing a broken balcony. Both were damaged by Russian artillery in March, when Horenka, this small town north of Kyiv, was on the front lines. Almost all of its buildings need to be repaired, or entirely rebuilt.
Ms. Kolinovych hopes hers will be soon. She and her husband fled March 4 for the southwestern city of Vinnytsia and returned in mid-May. For weeks, they’ve lived without running water, electricity, or gas. They’ve compartmentalized their damaged items into
