
Marianna Vishegirskaya walks downstairs in of a maternity hospital damaged by shelling in Mariupol
(Picture: AP)Your classic nativity scene has Mary and Joseph, a baby in a manger and animals choreographed in an arc around them. There may be shepherds, including a child with a lamb, and even wise men bearing expertly-encased gifts.
The photograph I’m looking at as I write this is a different kind of nativity scene. It depicts Mariupol, on the Sea of Azov, at the south-eastern corner of Ukraine, in March.