Grim winter looms as wartime Ukraine braces for infrastructure attacks
Kharkiv, Ukraine Reuters In an abandoned tower block damaged by Russian shelling in Ukraine’s second city, Olga Kobzar plans to tough out winter for as long as she can without electricity, water and central heating by lighting the gas stove in her kitchen for warmth. The 70-year-old, who lives alone in a devastated district of […]
In liberated Ukraine town, locals sob with relief, relate harrowing accounts
Balakliia, Ukraine Reuters The guns had gone quiet after three days of fighting in the battle-scarred north-east Ukrainian town of Balakliia, but Mariya Tymofiyeva said it was only when she saw Ukrainian soldiers that it hit her that over six months of Russian occupation had ended. “I was walking away….when I saw an armoured personnel […]
Ruined Lysychansk eerily silent, residents remain in bomb shelters, after fall to Russia
Reuters Lysychansk was once a city of a 100,000 people in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region, but it now lies in ruins after its fall to Russian forces with many residents still living in bomb shelters and basements. The city was eerily quiet on Tuesday with scorched buildings, overturned vehicles and rubble a testament to the […]