James Verini

James Verini's writing has appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, among other publications, and received a George Polk Award and a National Magazine Award. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Theater: Courage and Survival in the Defining Atrocity of the Ukraine War.

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‘That Day, We Realized the Russians Had Come to Kill Us’
Survivors of the siege of Mariupol recall the bombing of its most populated civilian shelter.
James Verini
May 12, 2026
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Alexei Alexandrov / AP; CR Shelare / Getty