Nation & World ‘By mid-March, corpses littered the street like newspapers’ August 4, 2025 long read Young Ukrainian mother and her toddler left to fend for themselves after husband joins soldiers defending Mariupol Excerpted from “By the Second Spring: Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine” by Danielle Leavitt, Ph.D. ’23. By the end of February, Leonid had begun taking food and supplies to the Ukrainian soldiers at the front lines of Mariupol’s defense. He talked about th...