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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Peter Beaumont in Mykolaiv

Craters, queues, and goodbyes: a day in the life of a Ukrainian city

Five older Ukrainian women sit in the shade while the wait for food distribution to begin in the city of Mykolaiv.
Ukrainian women gather and wait hours before food distribution begins in the city of Mykolaiv. Photograph: Peter Beaumont/The Guardian

At the door of the evacuation bus in the centre of the southern Ukrainian port city of Mykolaiv, Lyubov Verba squeezes the arm of her daughter Diana as her son Vyacheslav, 12, looks on.

It is a brief and poignant moment. Lyubov is tired and drawn. Unable to sleep under the Russian shelling that has targeted the city since the beginning of the war in February, she has developed a tremor.

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