Teenager Vyacheslav stands proudly with his young brothers and sisters, defiant despite a year of horror in which his mum was killed by Russian artillery shelling just 3ft away from him.
The 19-year-old was looking for food with Marina, 37, when she was blasted by shrapnel – one of 7,000 Ukrainian civilians whose life has been claimed by Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, which began a year ago this week.
Despite being drenched in his mother’s blood, Vyacheslav returned home to his brothers and sisters – then drove them through the night to safety as a Russian attack on their village in the Donetsk region was imminent.
