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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

'Bang, bang': Children live and play near Ukraine front line

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

The children flicker like ghosts on the empty playgrounds in weedy courtyards deep in a city whose residents have been told to get out now.

Six-year-old Tania has no more playmates left on her street in the eastern Ukraine city of Kramatorsk. She sits on a bench only steps away from the city's train station that was attacked by Russia in April, killing more than 50 people who had gathered there to evacuate. The remnants of a rocket from that attack bore the inscription in Russian: "For the children.”

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