"We will not hide. They cannot take away our love for life.”-Katia Dubyshkyna, Odesan.

Residents of Odessa, Ukraine at the entrance of Transfiguration Church, damaged by Russian missile strikes.

“There is no one who is not scared. But there is no Odesan who does not drink to Putin’s death. Every day in this country begins with a toast to Putin’s death.”-Savva Libkin, restaurateur.

“We waited in the bomb shelters, but we will not hide,” said Katia Dubyshkyna, 26, an interior designer. “They want us to be scared, but they cannot take away our lives, nor our love for life.”

Captioned by NYT: Dancing at a concert by Serhiy Zhadan, one of Ukraine’s best-loved contemporary poets and writers, in Odesa’s central park.

 

Caption NYT: Oleksandr Klochay, a Ukrainian soldier from the Kyiv region, playing with his 5-year-old son on the beach.

“The Odesan people are tired. People are tired of uncertainty, tired of anxious nights, of not falling asleep. But if the enemy is counting on this, he is wrong. Because this fatigue turns into the strongest hatred. We still don’t know if the missiles landing into the city are old and inaccurate. But if this was a targeted attack on the church, then one thing is clear: Finally, in the second year of this war, Putin understands that this is not a Russian city and that not only is no one waiting to welcome his soldiers there, but that they hate him.”-Odessa Mayor, Gennadiy Trukhanov.

“I feel pain, and I want revenge. I don’t have the words to say what we should do to them. Look at the music school! Look at what they did! The fact that those who live next to us, and lived among us, could do this to us — we can never forgive this. Never.”-Nina Sulzhenko, 74.