After one of Russia’s deadliest attacks, Kyiv residents lose hope for help | Russia-Ukraine war News

Kyiv, Ukraine – Several framed photos on the yellow ground drown amid bouquets of wilting flowers under a wind-shaken strip of red tape.

Above them are towering rectangles of damaged concrete – remnants of a blast-gutted apartment building.

Sasha Paremsky, 11, stood in front of the scene, quietly describing a boy in one of the photos.

“The scariest thing is to see my friend’s photo there. We’d just met to play football before … this,” he told Al Jazeera with a pause.

“This” was…