and this is line of front, forefront. how far are the russians from here? 0ne kilometre from here. russian warriors, one kilometre from here. civilian houses were hit. so many residents have left that they said there were no casualties. kate and herfamily had only gone as far as kiev. i can say with pride that i am ukrainian. my mother, father are ukrainians. and ijust don t understand why we should go somewhere, why we should leave our houses. a short walk away, someone else s home was destroyed. the owners don t have anything to come back to. the neighbours were fixing their house. volodymir said the russians were responding to ukrainian shelling.
fixing their house. volodymir said the russians were responding to ukrainian shelling. but he said, our guys won t leave until they drive the russians away. ukrainian resistance derailed russia s plans. but claims they are being forced to retreat around here are premature. you can still feel some of the heat from the fire caused by the missile that hit this house. it doesn t feel at all as if anything is settled around here. i d be very cautious about assuming that simply because the russians say they will concentrate more on eastern ukraine, that their business around the capital is finished. they were prosperous here before the invasion, with a riding school