In a rural village outside Vinnytsia in central Ukraine, the blistering white wind which battered the Kovalenko family’s thin wooden door howled into their home when Egor, 12, came in from the cold.
His mother, Tanya, nervously watched the young boy with cropped dark hair and steel blue eyes disappear into his bedroom with his brothers. The electricity had been out for days. Dark patches of mould had become so damp they looked like they had been burnt into the flaky ceiling.
It was April 2024 when the family moved into the decrepit rented home in Vinnytsia, almost 500 miles from Selydove, their war-struck hometown in Donetsk that once had a population of 21,000.
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