On friday, a fire broke out at this apparisian nuclear power plant. The main reason i can't leave is probably because of my mother. She plans on volunteering and help peop with supplies if she can. And i want to be able to help her if she needs it. I perhaps naively feel like i can survive this and perhaps do some good. They have fired at our houses, our schools, our communication towers. They destroyed my city centre, killing hundreds of innocent people in the process.
After failing to take Ukraine’s second city, Russian forces continue to
pummel it with air, artillery and missile strikes. We speak again with an increasingly despondent Kharkiv native. Many schoolyard games have deep histories, conveying culture down the generations; these days they are
adapting to the pandemic era. And the
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