BREAD AND DEATH IN KHARKIV

                                                                                                                                                                                                                Tyler Hicks

From the NYT-Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine, has endured incessant shelling by the Russians although some areas have been relatively untouched. Life is extremely tenuous, where even the most ordinary of actions can be fatal. A man and a woman were sharing a late lunch on a park bench when they were killed by a mortar round. A snow-dusted loaf of bread remained on the park bench. In the background, sand from the playground’s sandbox had been shoveled onto the pooled blood.