• Ukrainians survey debris after a residential building was hit by missiles in the country’s capital of Kyiv on Feb. 25. As Ukrainians deal with the devastation of the Russian attacks in their homeland, many are also encountering a confounding and almost surreal backlash from family members in Russia, who refuse to believe that Russian soldiers could bomb innocent people, or even that a war is taking place at all. | LYNSEY ADDARIO / THE NEW YORK TIMES
    Ukrainians survey debris after a residential building was hit by missiles in the country’s capital of Kyiv on Feb. 25. As Ukrainians deal with the devastation of the Russian attacks in their homeland, many are also encountering a confounding and almost surreal backlash from family members in Russia, who refuse to believe that Russian soldiers could bomb innocent people, or even that a war is taking place at all. | LYNSEY ADDARIO / THE NEW YORK TIMES
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LVIV, Ukraine – Four days after Russia began dropping artillery shells on Kyiv, Misha Katsiurin, a Ukrainian restaurateur, was wondering why his father, a church custodian living in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod, had not called to check on him.

“There is a war, I’m his son, and he just doesn’t call,” Katsiurin, who is 33, said in an interview. So, Katsiurin picked up the phone and let his father know that Ukraine was under attack by Russia.

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