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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
National
Jane McLeod

'There was nothing good': Freed Ukrainians tell of life under Russian rule

The letter Z – a Russian war emblem – on a damaged car in the freed village of Hrakove. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

UKRAINIANS in a newly freed village have spoken of life under months of Russian occupation.

Houses and shops in Hrakove, south-east of the country’s second-largest city Kharkiv, lie in ruins, while its school is a bombed-out shell and its church is scarred by ­rockets and artillery – though its golden dome still gleams in the fading ­autumn light.

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