Rebuilding in a warzone: no time for grand visions in Ukraine

Yana Psariova looks at a mural by the street artist Banksy, a short walk from her destroyed apartment in Irpin, Kyiv oblast. Photograph: Ed Ram/The Guardian

Yana Psariova was in her friend’s kitchen one morning two weeks ago, when she heard the familiar thunder of a Russian cruise missile passing overhead on its way to Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv.

Twice the 36-year-old has had to rebuild her life because of Vladimir Putin.