Luis Lid News Today

By Luis Lidón Kharkiv, Ukraine, Jul 7 (EFE).- Larisa is cleaning the aftermath of an explosion in the tiny cobbler’s workshop she has been working at for more than a decade in Ukraine’s second largest city of Kharkiv. With visible scars on her face from the recent attack, she picks up broken glass, debris and …

By Luis Lidón Pokrovsk, Ukraine, Jul 5 (EFE).- Ukraine’s railway network and its collective of 200,000 employees have become key to Kyiv’s resistance to invading forces. “The president of Ukraine surprised the world. The Ukrainian Army surprised the world. And the Ukrainian railways also surprised the world,” Oleksandr Kamyshin, director of Ukrzaliznytsia, a state-owned railway …

By Luis Lidón Sloviansk, Ukraine, Jul 4 (EFE).- Vlad never imagined that going to collect water from a wastewater treatment plant near his house in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk would put his life at risk. The 58-year-old, who preferred not to be identified by his surname, is one of hundreds of residents who …

By Luis Lidón Dnipro, Ukraine, Jul 2 (EFE).- A funeral can reveal many things, among them how the war in Ukraine has turned into a brutal artillery duel in which Russia has the upper hand. Of the 13 Ukrainian soldiers laid to rest in a Dnipro cemetery this week, eight were unidentified. “A temporarily unknown …

By Luis Lidón Dnipro, Ukraine, Jul 1 (EFE).- With bloody combat and devastating bombings encroaching deeper into Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, many residents who had until now resisted evacuation are boarding trains to destinations that are safer but just as uncertain. “We did not want to leave but we had no other option because everything …

By Luis Lidón Kremenchuk, Ukraine, Jun 28 (EFE).- As rescue teams continue to search for victims and air raid alarms sound in Kremenchuk, new information is emerging about the Russian missile attack that killed at least 20 people in a shopping center. “The instant spread of fire in the center due to the blast wave …

By Luis Lidón Kharkiv, Ukraine, Jun 27 (EFE).- Alla Zabolotnya was sitting on her sofa on Sunday when a ballistic missile landed just outside her house, destroying her orchard and roof. “If it wasn’t for this door I wouldn’t be alive, because you see, everything is destroyed,” the 68-year-old retired music teacher tells Efe as …

By Luis Lidón Kharkiv, Ukraine, Jun 25 (EFE).- The Azov Regiment has been back in the spotlight after its role in the Donbas war in 2014. Russian media uses the group as a prime example of the need to “denazify” Ukraine, while the regiment says that Russians are “the real Nazis.” After leading the resistance …

By Luis Lidón Kharkiv, Ukraine, Jun 24 (EFE).- Valentina and Lyudmila are handing out strawberries as plumes of smoke float into the sky from a nearby house that was flattened moments before in a Russian bombardment. Chuhuiv, a city southeast of Kharkiv, has been under incessant attack as Russia’s forces attempt to destroy a bridge …

By Luis Lidón Kharkiv, Ukraine, Jun 23 (EFE).- Russian artillery fire is relentlessly grinding down on Kharkiv and its outlying region, flattening refineries, factories, subway stations, schools, houses and churches. The northern neighborhoods and sleeper towns of Kharkiv have been the most affected by Moscow’s siege due their proximity to the Russian border and the …