In Ukraine, limbs lost and lives devastated in an instant; every day, ‘some new type of pain’

Yana Stepanenko, 11, is carried by a doctor at a public hospital in Lviv, Ukraine. Yana and her mother Natasha, 43, were injured April 8 by shelling at the train station of the eastern city of Kramatorsk, where they traveled with Yana’s twin brother Yarik from their village near the Russian war on Ukraine’s front line. They were planning to catch an evacuation train west, they hoped to safety. (Emilio Morenatti / AP)

KYIV, Ukraine — There is a cost to war — to the countries that wage it, to the soldiers who fight it, to the civilians who endure it.

For nations, territory is gained and lost, then sometimes regained and lost again.