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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Tom Watling

Inside war-ravaged Donetsk where Russia’s advance is robbing Ukrainians of a future

Yulia Checheta was at her elderly mother’s house when she popped out to check on her shop. Moments later she had a call to say the family’s home had been hit by two Russian missiles.

Her brother Volodymyr Radko and his 13-year-old son Mykola had been playing on the swings in the garden when the bombs hit. They died instantly, buried beneath the rubble. It would be months before their remains could be identified.

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