One body at a time, a Kyiv coroner documents the death toll of the Ukraine-Russia war
A body bag near the site of a suspected missile strike in a residential area of Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 15. KYIV, Ukraine — One body has been haunting the coroner. She was shot through the face with a high-caliber bullet through a car windshield. Then a Russian armored vehicle ran over the car, crushing her rib cage like a soda can and tearing off what was left of her head.
There are bodies filled with bullet fragments and bodies with pea-size entry wounds and golf-ball-size exit wounds, civilian clothes stained in blood and pocked with glass and wood shards; bodies with twisted metal lodged in throats and torsos; bodies with chest cavities and skulls delicately carved open by the coroner, slowly dripping blood on metal tables; bodies that have been lying for weeks in spring rains, or buried a few feet deep in mass graves of damp silt, making them impossible to...
Neither were the people who work there, Perovskyi fears. So far, colleagues have remained steely in the face of the onslaught. Now, the answers only beg more questions. Perovskyi has cut down his news and social media consumption to try to separate his work from the larger war narrative in his mind.His attempts to compartmentalize are further complicated by interactions with grieving families. When bodies come in with no identification, families are asked to identify their loved one. Perovskyi realized early in his career there was nothing he could say to mitigate the devastation in those moments.
He ends most days around 5 p.m., heading home to his parents’ two-bedroom apartment. On this day, he rolls up his sleeves and cooks an omelet with ham and red peppers, revealing the face of a lion tattooed on the inside of his right forearm. Seven years ago he Googled “calm lion” in Ukrainian and liked the first image result enough to get it tattooed in black and white.“I’m a Leo,” he says. “And every single tattoo artist tries to draw the lion roaring or having a crown.
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