The mansion’s destroyed gardens spilled down over a ruined residential complex, and burned bricks lay strewn across the sidewalk. “I feel pain, and I want revenge,” said Ms. Sulzhenko, 74. “I don’t have the words to say what we should do to them.”She gestured toward other buildings in various stages of ruin. The fact that those who live next to us, and lived among us, could do this to us — we can never forgive this. Never.”Hers was a common sentiment in Odesa this past week after a series of missile strikes damaged the city’s port and 29 historic buildings in its Belle Époque city center, including the Transfiguration Cathedral, one of Ukraine’s largest.

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Persons: Nina Sulzhenko, ”, Sulzhenko, “ Organizations: Scientists Locations: Russian, Ukrainian, Belle Époque