In December 2023, Anya Pankratyeva received a message that her nephew, Denys Sereda, 35, in a special military unit in the Ukrainian army, was in England for atraining exercise. She was able to gain access to the military base surprising him; taking phone photos to share with family back in Ukraine. He was sent back shortly after they saw each other and was killed three weeks later in the Kharkiv region on 2 January 2024. His last message to her, “Happy New Year and hopefully we’ll meet next year under a peaceful sky.”
Photographed in Pinner, England, March 20, 2024.