By Tom Balmforth, Charlotte Bruneau KYIV/NEAR KUPIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) -For the exhausted Ukrainian artillery gunners holding off Russian forces near the eastern town of Kupiansk, the U.S. aid package expected to finally pass this week is a lifeline and, potentially, a gamechanger, although that could take some time. “If they’d passed it (earlier), it would…
Even in the village of Lozuvatka, about 100 km (60 miles) from the frontlines, signs are everywhere of a two-year-old war that has irrevocably changed the face of Ukraine. Alona Onyshchuk and her five-year-old daughter Anhelina visited Lozuvatka's graveyard on a snowswept winter's day. Similar burial plots have appeared across the country, bearing bitter testament to a grinding war against Russia that's now entering its third year, with no end in sight.
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When Antonina Danylevych's husband enlisted in the Ukrainian army in March 2022, he had to line up at the draft office alongside crowds of patriotic countrymen. Danylevych, a 43-year-old HR manager, gave her blessing when Oleksandr joined up with tens of thousands of other Ukrainian citizens to defy the Russian invasion. "We want Ukraine to win, but not through the efforts of the same people," she said in an interview at her home in Kyiv.