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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Alex Gatopoulos

In a ghost town, Ukraine’s aid workers toil as Russian shells whizz above

Orikhiv's pre-war population was about 14,000. Now just a few hundred remain [Alex Gatopoulos/Al Jazeera]

Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine – We meet Yulia in the early morning. The autumn weather, still sunny, has turned sharp, and we all wish we’d brought warmer jackets. She is the coordinator for Ukraine’s emergency and rescue services, in charge of distributing aid to villages just behind the frontlines, where normal life has long since vanished.

Organised yet sanguine, we are clearly not the first media team she has shepherded.

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