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The old man displays a wide smile, opens his arms as if to welcome relatives after a long absence.
Here, there is no one: since the Russians left, the village is dead
, says Yuri, pointing to his devastated house on the edge of the village of Kozacha Lopan, very close to the Russian border.
Too weak to venture to the city center, the septuagenarian survives thanks to the few preserves that remain at home.
His neighbors have left: to Kharkiv, the regional capital, or to Russia, following in the footsteps of soldiers from Moscow when they were repulsed by the dazzling offensive of the Ukrainian army two weeks ago.
“My wife was injured by beatings. The Russians took her to the hospital in Belgorod, across the border. I'm sure they saved her life,”
he says, although he has no news of her and no way to contact her.
“It's so hard.
Please help me...
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