B2 EZ BD THE WASHINGTON POST.SUNDAY, MARCH 6 , 2022
Illustrator Sergiy Maidukov lives in Kyiv. His family fled the city after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine started, but he stayed behind, working with some foreign correspon-
dents covering the war and drawing what he saw on the streets. In the first few days, he was able to get around easily, he says. But then the situation “became much
tougher, and it is suspicious if you are standing [on] the street of [an] empty city and making pictures.” A police or military car will pull up and stop you then, Maidukov
writes, “because we have confirmed Russian sabotage groups here.” He sent these scenes from Ukraine’s capital on Wednesday and Thursday.The battle for Kyiv through the eyes of a local artist
This is Oleh, usually a
programmer working
in IT. He didn’t take
any special military
courses, but now he’s
standing guard near
the main Territorial
Defense Forces
checkpoint: He
spends three hours on
duty, then three hours
resting.The center of Kyiv.
The military and civil
defense volunteers
have set up metal
antitank crosses like
these to slow down
Russian invaders if
they make it into the
city.