Stepan Kovalyov, 80, and his brother Volodymyr Kovalyov, 77, toast with horilka, a Ukrainian spirit, inside of a cellar where Stepan and his wife live after their house was destroyed during the Russian occupation, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the village of Posad-Pokrovske, northwest of the city of Kherson, Ukraine January 29, 2023. There is no central power or heating and the surrounding fields are heavily mined, making them unworkable. Yet the brothers have decided to stay in the isolated farming village to live out their days in the place they know best. REUTERS/Nacho Doce
The two houses in what had been no-man's land between Russian and Ukrainian forces are badly damaged by shelling, there is no central power or heating and the surrounding fields are heavily mined, making them unworkable.
Yet the Kovalyov brothers - Stepan who is 80 and Volodymyr who is 77 - and their wives have decided to stay in the isolated farming village of Posad-Pokrovske in southern Ukraine to live out their days in the place they know best.
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