'He was delivering some juice on top of the tomb of his mother.'
of the young boy."He was delivering some juice on top of the tomb of his mother." Abd told TODAY that Vlad’s mother, Maryna Tanyuk, died in a basement as Russians invaded. She was 33.“We were taking pictures of a woman that lost her husband and one neighbor said ‘Come here, I will show you the tomb of a woman’,” Abd said, describing how he met the child.
“The Russians occupied their neighborhood with tanks,” Abd told TODAY Parents of the family, who sought shelter in a basement. “She was so frightened being bombed all the time.”After sharing the photo, Abd started getting requests from around the world for ways to help the family. Vlad, 6, walks with his father Ivan, 40, inside the basement where they lived during the war in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine.Abd, who has been on assignment in Ukraine for nearly a month, said his job as a photojournalist is"to transmit the emotion, the pain and the struggle that people are living in another place."
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