Special envoy to Kharkiv and Vilkhivka
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The school is no more than a gray mass, charred and gutted by the bombs.
In front floats a Ukrainian flag whose colors, by contrast, seem particularly dazzling.
A few kilometers away, the Ukrainian forces are engaged in bitter fighting to liberate other villages: frequent artillery strikes resound.
A black smoke then escapes in the sky.
Kharkiv is the second largest city in Ukraine.
Along the road that leads to the establishment, Marina and her daughter Sophia wander in this apocalyptic setting.
On his little bike, the 7-year-old child insists on turning off towards the blackened forecourt.
“
Next September, she should have started school here
,” Marina explains wearily.
The imposing thirty-year-old, wearing simple sandals, has his feet covered in grime;
in the village, water and electricity have not yet returned.
The family owns a small dacha not far away: “
The gas works there.
That's already it
, ”describes Marina.
She pauses to go...
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