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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 …