A playground in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, where a Russian strike on a Friday this month killed 19 people, including nine children. The attack was a painful reminder that a ceasefire remains as distant as ever. — Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times
THEIR lives intersected around a playground on a sunny Friday evening in Kryvyi Rih, a city in central Ukraine.
Kostiantyn Novik, 16, had come with his cousin to hang out with friends. Serhii Smotolok, a 57-year-old welder, was nursing a beer nearby on the terrace of a restaurant, unwinding after his workday. Radislav Yatsko, seven, was sitting in the back seat of his parents’ car as they drove past the playground, headed home from an afternoon at their country cottage.
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