What Life Looks Like in The "Fortress Cities" Putin is Trying to Subjugate
Canadian Volunteer Photographs by Tyler Hicks Text by Marc Santora Tyler Hicks spent 10 days in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk reporting this story. New York Times When explosions ring out across Kramatorsk, Oleksandr Chyvenkov and the police paramedic unit under his command do not rush immediately to the scene. Instead, they listen. In this compact industrial city, where every detonation reverberates off concrete high-rises, the first blast is often bait. The team monitors military communications channels for reports of any incoming secondary strikes before racing in heavy protective body armor to save lives. “Most people in our unit have faced double-tap strikes in some way,” said Mr. Chyvenkov, using a common term for such attacks. Civilians and a crew in hi-vis carrying a stretcher over rubble. Ukrainian rescue workers and civilians carrying a victim of a Russian bombing in Sloviansk in July.Credit... He has led rescue teams for more than four years, incl...