Serhii Molchanov

“Pelmen” — “Dumpling”

18 July 2002 — 11 October 2023, Luhansk Oblast
UAL Mariupol, 2021–2022

“He called me from Mariupol and said a war was coming: ‘Pack a suitcase.’ I answered, ‘Serhii, what are you talking about—what war?’ And then it began. I asked, ‘Why did you go? You have so many health problems [he had a serious spinal condition]—where are you going?’ ‘No—if not me, then who? Others will stay put; I’ll go,’” his sister Olha recalls.