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In his small car with a rusty cabin, Boris Redin rushes through the empty streets of Kharkiv, slaloming between anti-tank concrete blocks.
For years, this pro-Ukrainian veteran has been trying to preserve the legacy of the Maidan revolution in Ukraine's second city.
A not so obvious fight in a city located 30 kilometers from Russia, the first capital of Soviet Ukraine, Russified for decades with blows of purges and famines, parallel to the arrival of workers from all over the USSR.
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Here, one inhabitant in five has family “on the other side”… from where the bombs and planes leave, gradually reducing this metropolis of 1.5 million inhabitants to a heap of ruins.
More than 2,000 buildings have already been destroyed, according to the town hall.
The security services, the town hall, the police: in the center, the Russians bombed all the administrative buildings, sometimes historic buildings dating from the Russian Empire.
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