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This Ukrainian widower's superpower is repairing the home he shared with his wife

"He's giving us hope this neighborhood will come back to life," says a neighbor in the apartment building in Kharkiv damaged during Russia's invasion.

WEKU

Kharkiv’s year of war: ‘A bomb can fall on your home any time – and your life is over’

Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv put up a fierce resistance when Moscow's forces launched their full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022. Russian troops eventually withdrew back to their side of the border, 40 kilometres north of Ukraine's second largest city. But one year on, the people of Kharkiv are still…

France 24

I helped one man in this picture escape the horrors of Kharkiv. The other man? I may never know

Sometimes I can’t bear to find out what has happened to people I spoke to in the early days of war, says Ukrainian journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk

The Guardian - UK

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Return to Ukraine's Saltivka: Residents savour the calm following Russian retreat

After Russian forces left Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv, residents started to piece their lives back together. In March, our reporters filmed in the bombed-out neighbourhood of Saltivka, a residential area which had been shelled day and night. Most inhabitants fled, although a few terrified, isolated and yet defiant locals…

France 24

‘Everything has gone’: liberated Ukrainians on rebuilding Kharkiv

After months of terror and death, residents pick up the pieces of their former life in frontline Saltivka

The Guardian - UK

Grim winter looms as wartime Ukraine braces for infrastructure attacks

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.

Reuters

Ukrainian mum whose house was destroyed in bombing says sound of war is 'terrifying'

Thousands have fled Saltivka but those left have nowhere else to go as the war reaches its six months anniversary since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion on February 24

Daily Mirror

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In Kharkiv suburb, return of Soviet-era trams is a step towards normalcy

In Saltivka, a working class suburb of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, the trams are running again.

Reuters

Garbage collectors in Kharkiv dodge mortars to pick up the trash

In Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv, Russian forces continue to pound neighborhoods in the north and east. But city garbage collectors are still picking up the trash.

WEKU

Ukrainians cling to life at front line: 'We are patriots'

As Russia's invasion of Ukraine grinds into its fifth month, some residents close to the front lines remain in shattered and nearly abandoned neighborhoods

The Independent UK

‘It’s a horror show’: defiant Kharkiv residents return home despite new Russian offensive

No running water, gas or electricity and apartment blocks destroyed at random… Now civilians in Ukraine’s second biggest city are facing a new Russian offensive

The Guardian - UK

In Kharkiv’s worst-hit neighborhood, they refuse to leave. ‘We believe in our victory’

KHARKIV, Ukraine — At some point, all shelling sites look the same. There’s the jagged-edge crater with a spray-pattern of divots gouged out by shrapnel; the gap-toothed hole where ordnance punched through a wall; the scorched remains of automobiles that happened to be passing when a missile slammed into the…

Los Angeles Times

Russians fire rocket launcher into Ukraine apartment block killing five and injuring 20

The city suburb of Saltivka was hit on Sunday, destroying the civilian block as Ukrainian forces engaged in counter-attacks in the Kharkiv region, recapturing two villages fully and another partially

Daily Mirror

‘We have survived’: In bombed-out Kharkiv, residents adjust to life underground

In Saltivka, one of Kharkiv’s poorest and most heavily bombarded districts, hundreds of civilians have sought refuge in metro stations. The subterranean dwellers tell Kim Sengupta how they have created a sense of community, with a medical clinic, lessons for children, and even a makeshift nail parlour

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