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Kharkiv: two friends' on their city's plight
Russia intensifies its attack on Ukraine鈥檚 second city.
There鈥檚 hardly an area of Kharkiv that an artillery shell has not hit. Ukraine鈥檚 second city has faced bombing for days, an attack on their main government HQ and is now seeing Russian paratroopers landing on the ground. Today鈥檚 Martha Kearney speaks to two friends from Kharkiv living different lives at the moment. Glib Mazepa is a resident in Kharkiv who鈥檚 decided to stay in the city and is helping to collect materials for Molotov cocktails. His friend, Oleksandr Zinyenko left the city and is now in the west of Ukraine in Lviv.
(Image: Oleksandr, left and Glib with his wife Katie, right)
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