Kharkiv celebrates return of street lights

A bicyclist rides along a lighted street in the centre of Kharkiv on Tuesday, after public street lighting was turned on for the first time on over a year. (Photo: AFP)

KHARKIV, Ukraine: Street lighting has returned to Kharkiv, sparking joy in Ukraine’s second-largest city that has been plunged into darkness and shelled regularly by Russian forces for more than a year.

Public lighting was switched on for just under two hours in the city centre on Tuesday evening, an AFP journalist reported.