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Reuters
Reuters
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Vitalii Hnidyi

After three months underground, Kharkiv residents move as metro reopens

FILE PHOTO: Natalia Shaposhnik, 36, plays with her daughter Veronika, 7, in a stationary subway car in a metro station in northern Kharkiv where they live to shelter from shelling in their neighbourhood as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, Ukraine, March 24, 2022. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Ukraine's second-largest city Kharkiv restarted its metro service on Tuesday and asked the hundreds of people who had used the underground as a bomb shelter for the last three months to free up the train carriages, but many said they were still too scared to return home.

Kharkiv came under intense Russian bombardment following Moscow's Feb. 24 invasion, forcing thousands of civilians to flee to the depths of the metro, with some hunkering down longer term on platforms and in train carriages.

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