Irina poses with her cat Alitsia, after she went back into the embattled town of Irpin to retrieve it, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Heavy fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other zones Thursday amid indications the Kremlin is using talk of de-escalation as cover while regrouping and resupplying its forces and redeploying them for a stepped-up offensive in eastern Ukraine. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)
