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Hace 1 día · W e arrived in Kharkiv at lunchtime on Friday May 10th, as news was breaking that Russian troops had crossed the border, around 30km away, early that morning. “Shit, it’s war again,” thought ...
Hace 3 días · "Unbreakable" best describes Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city. It has faced almost daily Russian shelling since the beginning of the full-scale war. Aerial bombs, missiles, and drones have destroyed infrastructure, devastated residential buildings, and claimed countless lives.
Hace 5 días · Ten days after the start on May 10th of Russia’s offensive in Kharkiv province, the pace of the advance has slowed. For now, Ukraine is holding the Russians roughly halfway through Vovchansk—a ...
Hace 3 días · Russia has advanced over about 50 square miles and captured about a dozen villages, many now in rubble. On Friday, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said the Russian offensive had reached ...
Hace 3 días · Fresh fighting along the frontline in Ukraine has again driven thousands of civilians from their homes and villages near the country’s second largest city, Kharkiv, close to the Russian border. Some are children with disabilities along with orphans – all of whom are showing signs of extreme trauma. In the Kharkiv region, those ...
Hace 3 días · "Kharkiv is a city of social advertising and broken windows," says my first interviewee, Yuliia Napolska, a volunteer, producer of the media outlet Nakypilo, and a resident of Kharkiv. We go to the Franyk coffee shop on Freedom Square, which was damaged by shelling in December 2023 but recovered and reopened in March 2024.
Hace 3 días · Neighbours point to the site of a rocket attack in the northern part of Kharkiv on Saturday. Photograph: Jędrzej Nowicki/The Guardian. Under the late spring sun on Saturday afternoon, these were some of the sounds to be heard in Kharkiv’s Shevchenko Park: birds chirruping; young couples chatting and laughing over iced coffees; tinny pop music playing from speakers mounted on lamp-posts ...
