At a Draft Site in Ukraine, an Anguished Wait for a Chance to Say Goodbye
The Ukrainian authorities are rounding up recruits. Relatives huddle at a center on the edge of Kyiv for a chance to see loved ones before they’re shipped to war.
First came the collapse of the Soviet Union, then an economic crisis and now the Russian invasion: Ukraine’s population has been dropping for some time. Putin’s war has turned the crisis into a catastrophe. An area in northern Ukraine provides a case study.