Many Ukrainian families instinctively try to repair their shelled apartments, while understanding that they may soon need to abandon them / © The largely deserted city is locally famous for the particularly bleak tone of the air raid sirens blaring at seemingly random hours of both day and night. The battle at Galyna allowed the Russians to edge a little closer to Kramatorsk - a rival seat of power for the Donbas war zone to one Kremlin-backed fighters set up in Donetsk. "The kids keep asking to go out and I never want to let them. "You barely want to allow the children to go out and play," the mother said. Yevgen stood with his hands folded behind his mother's skirt and stared at his shoes.īut his head would jerk sharply at the rumbles coming from the front. "My two-year-old has started losing her hair from the stress." "I stay up all night worrying about them," the 33-year-old single mother said from the garden of an abandoned cottage she found near the now-destroyed Kramatorsk tower. Zakharova then risked it and made a mad 20-kilometre (12-mile) dash with Yevgen and his two little sisters for the relative safety of Kramatorsk. They ended up sheltering for a week in a Galyna school basement from a frightening battle between Russian tanks and Ukrainian forces dug in the surrounding hills. Lyubov Zakharova had spent much of the war trying to keep Yevgen off the streets. Most of the children of Ukraine's war zone have fled with their families, leaving those who remain feeling especially vulnerable / ©
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