The Wider Image: Elderly brothers eke out life among ruins

Stepan Kovalyov, 80, and his wife Tetyana, 79, stand inside their house, which was destroyed during months of Russian occupation, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in the village of Posad-Pokrovske, northwest of the city of Kherson, Ukraine January 27, 2023. The couple currently lives inside their cellar, which their late son originally built to use as a food store. “We are 80, we’ve worked all our lives, in the same garden and now we’re waiting for death,” Stepan said. REUTERS/Nacho Doce