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“We were walking through Shevchenko Park in the center of Kharkiv. It was a lovely day, very warm and sunny. People were sitting outside, chatting and drinking coffee. ”

Sean WalkerThe Guardian’s Central and Eastern Europe correspondent was walking through a park in Kharkiv, Ukraine, when he heard an explosion in the distance.

“As I looked around at the people, I saw them momentarily alert and stopped in their path, but it was almost imperceptible. And then the scene before this continued, and the people just went about their day. Not that surprising considering that in recent weeks there have been air strikes almost every day, sometimes several times a day.

Sean says michael safi About Russia’s recent advance in the Ukraine war and those trying to live close to the front lines.



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