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The Independent UK
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Bel Trew

‘How can we rebuild?’: Ukrainians return home to wreckage and tragedy in liberated Mykolaiv

Bel Trew/Independent

Bent double with grief, Serhiy, 66, picks through the remains of his destroyed village that just two days ago was zero point in the front line of Russia’s invasion of southern Ukraine.

He is on his first trip back to Kobzartsi, in the Mykolaiv region, since March after being critically injured in a round of shelling. His wife had just died in a heart attack brought on by the ferocious round of bombardment which nearly killed him.

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