Sofia lives in cramped conditions with her boyfriend and his mother after strikes destroyed their home.
Sofia kneels in the corner of the room, making herself as small as possible. Space, or the complete lack of it, is now the constant constraint in her life.
But Yaroslav and Nadiia returned to find their own home in ruins, destroyed during the failed Russian march on Kyiv at the start of the war.The floorspace in the room can be crossed in three strides. The bed and a fridge are on one side while a stove sits right by the door. Nadiia says they use torches and candles but it's the suffocating lack of space that is the hardest thing for this family. At least in the summer they could open the door, but now it's too cold.We crunch through the snow which covers the foundations of what used to be the ground floor rooms that made up her former home.Sofia Prosyanyk and Nadiia Moiseenko
"There was a closet near the wall. Now when I want to take something from there, I catch myself thinking - there is nothing there anymore." We trundle along snow-covered tracks to another part of a village where men are busy putting up one of those prefab homes for 64-year-old Inna and her son.
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