Sunflowers (sunyashniki) are especially loved in Ukraine, where golden fields of them face the sunrise in the east. They are Ukraine’s national flower, and in folk imagery represent the warmth and power of the sun, which was worshipped by pre-Christian Slavs.
Ukraine assesses damage as Russian strikes hit Kyiv!
Russian missiles and shelling rained down on Ukraine after russian billionaire dictator unleashed a full-scale invasion.
Svetlana Akimova, 82, on Saturday in a parking garage where she had been seeking shelter for the past day amid heavy fighting outside her apartment building in Kyiv. (Lynsey Addario for The New York Times)
A destroyed apartment in a residential building in Kyiv. (Umit Bektas/Reuters)
The remnants of a munition piercing an apartment near Kharkiv. (Sergey Bobok/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
The body of a Russian soldier next to an armored vehicle that Ukrainian soldiers said was Russian, in Kharkiv. (Tyler Hicks The New York Times)
Sunflowers (sunyashniki) are especially loved in Ukraine, where golden fields of them face the sunrise in the east. They are Ukraine’s national flower, and in folk imagery represent the warmth and power of the sun, which was worshipped by pre-Christian Slavs.