在纽约9/11事件后，150万吨碎石被筛查出来，超过五万件个人物品得以找回，其中80%归还给了家属。然而，基辅因资金短缺，无法达到如此规模。“个人物品归还”作为新兴标准流程，在乌克兰目前难以实现，幸存者社群充满对繁琐官僚和个人损失的沮丧。

基辅常见做法是将混杂有个体遗物的废墟运往郊区垃圾场。部分紧急救援人员提出，应该把废墟送往安全场所，清理、登记后留待幸存者。因垃圾填埋场短缺和中央地方矛盾，很多有意义的遗物混杂消失，市政官员对此表示无奈。

8月28日导弹袭击导致17岁女孩尼娜丧生。其母亲马祖尔靠打三份清洁工养活家庭和备付学费，如今只剩下来自停尸间的一枚戒指。而对于失去亲人的救赎，她看重的是公正惩罚肇事者，“钱和物都不重要，只希望普京和他们为乌克兰所做付出代价”。

In New York City after the 9/11 attacks, 1.5 million tonnes of debris were processed, resulting in the recovery of more than 50,000 personal items, with 80% returned to families. However, cash-strapped Kyiv cannot match these efforts. The emerging standard of “personal effects return” is difficult to implement in Ukraine, fueling frustration in survivors’ groups over bureaucracy and lost belongings.

Kyiv typically disposes of rubble, often mixed with personal effects, at peripheral landfill sites. Some emergency workers suggest rubble be sent to secure locations for cleaning and cataloguing before returning items to survivors. Due to shortages of landfill space and disputes between local and national authorities, meaningful possessions frequently disappear, a fact city officials express regret about.

On August 28th, a missile strike killed 17-year-old Nina. Her mother, Lesya Mazur, had worked three cleaning jobs to afford university fees for Nina, who was due to study in Poland. All she has left of her daughter is a ring recovered at the morgue. For Mazur, true solace would come from justice—“I don’t want money or anything else. I want Putin and those responsible to be punished for what they have done to Ukraine.”