Article 5WZD1 Woman who survived siege of Leningrad as a girl now trapped in Kharkiv

Woman who survived siege of Leningrad as a girl now trapped in Kharkiv

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Associated Press in Kharkiv
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Daughter-in-law speaks of her anger that Alevtina Shernina, 91, is ending her life as it began

Alevtina Shernina was a young girl when she survived the brutal siege of Leningrad during the second world war. Eight decades later, so frail she can barely talk, or move unassisted, she is besieged again.

The 91-year-old lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city and one of the most battered urban areas in Russia's invasion. The bombardment has come so close that windows in her apartment building were blown out.

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