‘They did it, they did these horrible things. It’s hard to believe’

Lives, cities, heritage ruined by war in Ukraine

03 April 2022 - 00:00 By Reuters

Valery Petrovich Sorokin, 66, didn’t want to leave his home outside Kharkiv. He suffers from arthritis and struggles to move. But, a month into the war, as Russian bombs fell around him, his family urged him to go to Poland with them...

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