In Odesa, the deadly campaign of Russian airstrikes poses a heightened threat to a world-renowned cultural treasure: the jewel-box grid of streets making up Odesa’s UNESCO-designated historic center, which abuts the city’s port.
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Ukraine’s recapture this month of Kherson, a provincial capital to the north of Crimea, has revived longtime hopes of somehow regaining control of the Massachusetts-sized peninsula, which the government in Kyiv and most of the world still considers part of Ukraine.
Nearly five months into Moscow s full-scale invasion, everyday reminders of an empire s imprint have become, for many Ukrainians, an unbearable affront.