‘Carol of the Bells’ Once Filled the Air Here. Now It’s Only Bombs.

Mykola Leontovych, the Ukrainian composer of the famed festive song, lived in the eastern city of Pokrovsk. Months of Russian assaults have erased most tributes to his life there.A statue of the Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych outside a park in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, in August last year, a few days before it was relocated for safekeeping.