‘First you cry, then get used to it’: Ukraine villagers find a kind of refuge in Mykolaiv
by Emma Graham-Harrison in Mykolaiv from on (#5X6D9)
Ukraine is holding out in the heavily bombarded port city and even as thousands of people try to leave, others are arriving
After an airstrike flattened the school behind his house and artillery shells ripped apart a circle of neighbouring homes, Dmitry Yakhshyboyev went out to look for petrol.
His family, from seven-month-old son to parents in their 70s, had been cowering in their basement without heating, electricity or running water for two days, as Russian forces assaulted their village.
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