Houses and shops lie in ruins in the small village of Hrakove outside of Ukraine's second-largest city Kharkiv. Its school is a bombed-out hull and the church is scarred by rockets and shells. Russian troops suddenly fled as Ukrainian troops advanced.
Feral dogs roams the mud-rutted streets, and authorities warn of mines and booby-traps in the weeds.
The Russian soldiers were both frightened and paranoid, he said, and would check residents’ mobile phones for anything anti-Russian or anything they thought might give away their positions. Some people were taken away, and he never saw them again. “There were a lot of destroyed roads, private houses, a lot of people dead and a lot of people missing, both military and civilians,” he said, as residents in nearby Chkalovske gathered to receive food and water. “Now we are trying to repair the infrastructure, the electricity and gas. The food is brought in because people did not have food.
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