‘Pushed towards poetry’: how one victim of Russian airstrike made sense of attack

‘There is so much I am unable to articulate about my own experiences of reporting through my photographs,’ says Anastasia Taylor-Lind. Photograph: Paolo Verzone

On 27 June, a Russian Iskander missile struck a bustling pizza restaurant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk. The attack claimed the lives of 13 people, including four children, and left 60 others wounded, some critically. The restaurant, a popular spot for local residents and international journalists, was at full capacity when the missiles hit.

Among those present that day was Anastasia Taylor-Lind, a British-Swedish poet and photojournalist, along with her translator and friend Dima. They were in Kramatorsk to document a long-term project funded by the National Geographic Society, which involved reporting on the environmental impact of the war in Donbas.