One year later, a photographer reflects on his time in Mariupol as Russia invaded
Timothy Wolfer, a freelance journalist who spent the first days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine reporting on the ground in Mariupol for NPR, reflects on his time there one year later.
Last year, I spent my 35th birthday in Mariupol, Ukraine, in a coworking space called 1991 — named in honor of the year Ukraine gained independence.
I'd flown to Ukraine as a freelance journalist. I rented an apartment in one of the city's Soviet-style high-rises and wandered the town every day, talking with those employed in the tech sector at the co-working space, going out for drinks and dinner at local restaurants and pubs, ice-skating and even getting a haircut at a barber shop that had been around
