Sasha Makoviy smiles at the girl’s antics, but her expression darkens as she recalls the hours following the invasion of Ukraine, when she feared she might split from her two-year-old daughter Vira. “I was just afraid of losing Vira,” he said. “She was such a long-awaited child and I really wanted to raise her with the prospects of our family, with love, books and art.” As the bombs exploded in Kyiv as Makovi prepared to leave the Ukrainian capital, she wrote her contact details on her daughter’s back. When the picture was
