The Ukraine Diaries

Collected and illustrated by Nora Krug | Not long after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I reached out to K., a journalist in Ukraine, and D., an artist in Russia, to interview them for a weekly visual diary. On New Year’s Eve, D. is in France, pondering his wish for Vladimir Putin to die. K.’s young son cries upon seeing Volodymyr Zelensky’s New Year’s speech.

Nora Krug is the author of “Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home,” winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the illustrator of Timothy Snyder’s new graphic edition of “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from The Twentieth Century.” Read more in this series: latimes.com/ukrainediaries