After more than two years of attacks, much of the population has left and the remaining soldiers are stuck in a war ‘going nowhere’Lyubov Lobunets, 77, left her home in the frontline Ukrainian city of Kupiansk in August when it was hit by a Russian explosive.“I was in a five-storey building,” she explained , speaking from a centre for the displaced in nearby Kharkiv. “I don’t know whether it was a Russian missile or bomb that hit the building but it started a fire, and when the flames reached my floor, I was stuck because the door was damaged and I couldn’t escape.” Continue reading...
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‘There is no life’: Kupiansk’s slow demise reflects the fate of cities on Ukraine’s frontline
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