'I hate them': Ukrainians hide from bombings underground, but their fury grows
Like so many people in these parts, Marina’s family history shows the web of ties that once bound these two Slavic nations. Her mother was from Siberia, her father from Ukraine and she was born a citizen of the Soviet Union. She arrived in Kharkiv as a student, staying there after the collapse of communism and rebirth of Ukraine as an independent state in 1991.
Barely a week into the war, she was nearby when cruise missiles struck Kharkiv’s regional administration, killing 29 people. The damage, as I later saw standing by the huge hole ripping through floors, was incredible, It was also highly symbolic, since the imposing Soviet-era building overlooked a huge plaza where the country’s biggest statue of Lenin once stood before it was renamed Freedom Square after independence. On the same day a shell landed by her home.
. The streets seemed largely deserted, lined by cafes, offices and shops with broken windows and locked doors. Yet I found Marina leading a volunteer group serving soup, rice and fish from a restaurant chain to scores of mostly elderly people, ignoring rumbles of war in the distance. On Vyshyvanka Day, when Ukrainians celebrate traditional clothing, inevitably she wore an embroidered shirt.
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