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Veronika Kostianskaya applies a final coat of varnish to her client's pink nails before carefully drying them under a UV lamp.
The 20-year-old woman, wearing pink Crocs, has worked for several years as a beautician in Kharkiv.
But today, one of the city's thirty metro stations serves as a beauty salon.
"
We have to be beautiful to win
," exclaims Iryna Reshetik, her flawless make-up client.
For two and a half months, Veronika, Iryna and thousands of Kharkiv residents have been living underground to escape Russian bombs raining down on Ukraine's second city, just 30 kilometers from the Russian border.
The inhabitants we shelter are sometimes completely confused, they no longer make the difference between day and night
Nadia, manager of a Kharkiv metro station
Subway Refugees
"
What time can I make an appointment for tomorrow?"
a neighbor asks Veronika.
"
Oh, when you want, you know I'm not moving from here
," laughs the beautician, installed behind a small table in the center of the platform.
Arrival in the metro with his family…
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