Special envoy to Kharkiv
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There was a noise that had long disappeared from Kharkiv, about thirty kilometers from the Russian border: that of traffic jams.
The usually annoying purring of exhaust pipes now symbolizes the return to life of Ukraine's second city, as large and populated as Lyon.
Of course, it's not the pre-war rush hour - only 1.2 million people still live there compared to almost 2 million before the war - but Kharkiv breathes, seethes, resists.
Life as a snub to the defeated invader, just 35 kilometers away.
A martyr city symbol of hope
Russian artillery, driven from the outskirts of the city in May 2022 and pushed back to the border four months later, no longer shells the industrial city.
The power cuts of winter 2022 are now history, even if missile explosions still resonate several times a week.
When they rang out in the middle of Saturday afternoon, February 17...
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