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Vera, who lives alone and says she suffers from a heart condition, is raising a child with special needs whose mother abandoned him after the conflict began. “The mother just gave up,” she says.
At 2am one night, a shell crashed through the roof of Vera’s home and landed in the hallway.
“The roof was destroyed and the shrapnel from the explosion reached the houses nearby,” says Vera, who lives in Nykyforivka near Nikolaevka.
“I have no money to pay for repairs,” she says. Construction material has been delivered, but with the lack of men, there’s no one to do the work. She has managed to put a plastic cover over the roof against the rain.
- Credits Ian McNaught Davis/TNH
- Themes Conflict Politics and Economics
- Regions Europe Ukraine