Immersed in a war, the harsh lives of the elderly in a residence in Ukraine

Járkov, Indefinite. Happiness is "to have enough not to die of hunger, clothes and shoes. It is my case," says Zinaida Guirenko, a retired Ukrainian whose old age was shaken by the Russian invasion. Until May 2024 she lived in Zaoskillia, a village near the war front in the region of Járkov, in the northeast, bordering Russia and ravaged by more than three years of Russian bombings. The old woman, who lost her memory a little, explains that she …