Honcharova with her son Maksym at their home in Kyiv, Ukraine. — ©2023 The New York Times Company
MAKSYM, 13, needs a life of stability and routines, but almost two years of war in Ukraine have given him anything but that.
The boy, his adult brother and his mother fled their home city, Mariupol, under Russian attack. His father was captured as a prisoner of war. And Maksym has had to live with the sounds of bomb explosions and air raid sirens in Kyiv, where he now lives. The therapist who once treated him in Mariupol has also become a refugee.
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