From our special correspondents Nadjet Cherigui (text) and Youry Bilak (photos)
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His handkerchief is wrapped around his finger.
She clings to it, almost desperately, to dry tears that haven't flowed for a long time.
However, Halia's grief is very real, it has drawn a bright red outline around her blue eyes that has become almost indelible.
The depth of his pain is abysmal.
His suffering is so significant that it becomes palpable to the point of sticking to your skin, of impregnating you, and finally inhabiting you too.
Halia is a widow.
She is 73 years old and has always lived here in Chernihiv.
This city of nearly 300,000 inhabitants has joined the long list of Ukrainian localities that have become martyrs of this war.
Located about a hundred kilometers north of kyiv and close to the borders of Belarus and Russia, Chernihiv found itself on the front line of the incursion launched by Vladimir Putin.
Two years have passed since the invasion...
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