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Reuters
Reuters
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Thomas Peter

UNCOVERED: Fearing bombs and war kharkiv families spend a month underground | History Defined

Lyudmila Lazareva and her dog Rika sit in a in a metro station in northern Kharkiv with Katarina Bovt, Kolya and their son Nikita where they live to shelter from shelling in their neighbourhood, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, Ukraine, March 24, 2022. Lazareva has moved to the underground shelter 30 days ago after the apartment building next to hers got hit by a shell on the first day of the wa and she only leaves the station to briefly walk her dog. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

In a Ukrainian city battered by bombs since the start of Russia's invasion, Natalia Shaposhnik and her daughter Veronika live in a blue and yellow train parked in a metro station deep underground.

For four long weeks, Shaposhnik and hundreds like her have hunkered down inside the station in the north of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city.

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