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 comes back from the morgue where he last saw Viktor and Mykola, his brother and a friend, killed by the fragmentation rocket that fell in his chicken coop.
A third person was injured, but he miraculously escaped unscathed.
"I was lucky"
, he said simply.
Its garden is the mirror of the hell experienced by the inhabitants of Shevtchenkove, a village located on the southern front of Ukraine on the edge of the Kherson region.
The metal door of his workshop, the palisade leading to the vegetable garden, the kitchen window are studded with shrapnel impacts.
This is the second time that a projectile has fallen on the house he...
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