#THE SHARDS OF WAR WINDOWS#

Sorochan had been looking after the girl for her sister, who lives in another town that the family had viewed as more dangerous. “When will we go to town and get Mommy?” she asked. In fields opposite the building, fallen cherries and plums lay scattered across the rich earth. The soft summer sunlight and the shards of hot metal that descended out of the early morning sky seemed hard to reconcile.

#THE SHARDS OF WAR WINDOWS#

The concrete building, with its shattered windows and smashed satellite dishes dangling from it, loomed over them. She was sitting with other survivors in a children’s playground where shattered glass lay between the swings and seesaws and slides. I only understand that they are killing us, and that’s it.” Putin, he said “Russian society has been poisoned by him.”Ĭlutching her 5-year-old niece behind the residential building where her apartment on the second floor had been damaged, Oksana Sorochan, a seamstress, said: “I don’t understand much. Yenin said “their aim is to scare the Ukrainian people and put an end to our resistance. Standing in front of what was left of the apartment building in Serhiivka, Mr. “The occupiers are destroying one house after another with heavy artillery and other weapons,” said the governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidai. Putin on Friday, saying that Russian forces “are not working against civilian targets in the course of the special military operation” - the expression Russia uses for its invasion of, and war in, Ukraine.įrom the start of the war, however, Russian forces have repeatedly shelled civilian targets - including apartment buildings, a railroad station, a theater used as a shelter, a shopping mall and a maternity hospital - and rendered some cities and towns uninhabitable. Training Abroad: In England, military trainers are teaching essential battlefield skills to Ukrainian recruits heading into the fight back home.Clandestine Resistance: Ukrainian guerrilla fighters are spotting targets, sabotaging rail lines and killing those deemed collaborators as they seek to unnerve Russian forces.Crimea: Attacks by Ukrainian forces have tested security on the Black Sea peninsula, which was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014 and has become a vital staging ground for the invasion.On the Ground : Ukraine has recently shifted its combat strategy with the help of long-range Western weapons, striking deep behind enemy lines to deplete Russia’s combat potential.

The shards of war