REPORT – The forces of Kyiv advance methodically in the direction of this city held by the Russians.
Special Envoy to Mykolaiv and Kryvyi Rih
Leonid interrupts his story with silences, during which he gently passes his hand over his head. Two days after the strike that landed in his yard, he hasn’t really come to his senses yet. “It was there, and there”, he repeats, pointing to two spots of browned blood on the concrete floor in the shade of a trellis. He returns from the morgue where he last saw Viktor and Mykola, his brother and a friend, killed by the fragmentation rocket that fell into his chicken coop. A third person was injured, but miraculously escaped unscathed. “I was lucky”, he said simply. Its garden is the mirror of hell lived by the inhabitants of Shevchenkove, a village located on the southern side of Ukraine on the edge of the Kherson region. The metal door to his studio, the palisade leading to the vegetable garden, the kitchen window are studded with shrapnel. This is the second time that a projectile has fallen on the house he…
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