Freezing under fire

Mykhailiuk, Honcharuk and little Markiian at home in Kyiv, looking at apartments damaged during a drone strike in autumn of last year. — Oksana Parafeniuk/The New York Times

THEY lived in a spacious apartment in a fashionable Kyiv neighbourhood, which they called “our little fortress” through years of war.

Even after it was damaged in a missile strike, Yulia Mykhailiuk, a lawyer, and Ihor Honcharuk, a TV station manager, stayed put, renting another apartment.