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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Emma Graham-Harrison in Mykolaiv

‘First you cry, then get used to it’: Ukraine villagers find a kind of refuge in Mykolaiv

Sergei Pinaev consoles his 13-year-old daughter Anastasia in a refugee transit shelter in Mykolaiv, Ukraine.
Sergei Pinaev consoles his 13-year-old daughter, Anastasia, in a refugee transit shelter in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. Photograph: Anton Skyba/The Globe and Mail

After an airstrike flattened the school behind his house and artillery shells ripped apart a circle of neighbouring homes, Dmitry Yakhshyboyev went out to look for petrol.

His family, from seven-month-old son to parents in their 70s, had been cowering in their basement without heating, electricity or running water for two days, as Russian forces assaulted their village.

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