After pulling back from Kyiv and several other northern cities during April, Russia has been rebuilding its badly mauled forces, and concentrating its efforts in the east
hands were covered in blood; and unlike Lady Macbeth, she was not hallucinating. Quick thinking saved the first-year psychology student from probable death: she ran from her kitchen to the bathroom as soon as she heard the first thuds. By the timereached her flat on Shakespeare Street on the afternoon of May 26th, slicing through the сhestnut trees to land outside her window, Ms Rebenko was two walls away from the impact. She walked away with minor cuts.
As a result, Ukraine’s second city, a proud, gutsy, working-class centre, faces a most uncertain future. Because it is only 40km from Russia, few thought Kharkiv stood any chance of withstanding an invasion. In the event, enemy armour was inside the sprawling city boundaries within the first three days. But a combination of spirited resistance and a reluctance by Moscow to commit the kind of forces needed to encircle the city meant Kharkiv somehow survived.
Over at the city’s gigantic Barabashova market, once the beating heart of Kharkiv trade, but now mostly reduced to scorched rubble, a couple of shopkeepers are daring to set up again. Iryna Petrovna has returned to sell flasks and metal pans. But her inventory is Chinese, and with Ukraine’s ports under Russian blockade, she knows she is unlikely to get new stocks. “We’re scared as hell, but what else can we do? We need to work.
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