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Vitali Klitschko, whose footwork was derided even during his reign as world heavyweight champion, carefully steps past the feet of a dead body, moving into an apartment building obliterated by Russian missiles. The mayor of Kyiv, once such a brutal force in the boxing ring, urges those around him to proceed with reverence for the deceased, as they set about sifting through the rubble. Dusty photographs and torn pages of literature, as Klitschko stresses, would have been among the most cherished possessions of those to have lived there – those to have died there, during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
