Hours after Olena Khirkovska’s husband pulled her out of the rubble in a nightgown, the Monitor’s Dominique Soguel encountered her in a borrowed pink sweater outside her damaged apartment building. That was nearly 16 hours into rescue efforts following a large-scale drone and missile attack that hit Kyiv shortly after 1 a.m. But Ms. Khirkovska was “super strong,” says Dominique. Her photo captures a striking ordinariness against an extraordinary backdrop.

There’s a high cost to sending correspondents to places like Ukraine. But there’s just no substitute for having the Monitor on the ground, finding people like Ms. Khirkovska. People standing strong amid crumpled metal.