Abandoned cats and dogs roam vacant streets lined with blasted apartment buildings, rubble and crumpled cars in Shebekino, a Russian border town pounded by shelling from Ukraine.
“I need insulin!
I need insulin!” cried Lyudmila Kosobuva, 56, who said she was taking care of a diabetic friend too old to move.
“We will not leave our land.”Such desperation and scenes of devastation are familiar to millions of Ukrainians confronting the Russian invasion of their country.
But this was not Ukraine, it was Russia — a western sliver of the vast country where Ukrainian-backed forces have lobbed shells and missiles on residential areas.
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”, Lyudmila Kosobuva, “
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