After their father died and their mother fell into drink, Petr Khokhlov and his brother, Sergey, were sent to an orphanage in Novouzensk, a small, dusty town of low-slung Soviet-era apartment blocks on Russia's border with Kazakhstan. The two boys had only each other.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
New York Times: The search for Petr Khokhlov
Pro-Russian rebels patrol their sector of Eastern Ukraine near the town of Yenakiyevo, east of Donetsk, on Dec. 31, 2014.
