‘It knocked me out of reality’: Ukrainians struggle to comprehend strikes on their homes
by Emma Graham-Harrison and Artem Mazhulin in Uman from World news | The Guardian on (#6BA8S)
A strike that killed 23 people far from any frontlines forces residents to understand that one could come anywhere
Huddled under a blanket, Iryna Babii turned away from the empty space where until Friday nine floors of apartments had been stacked, one of them home to her daughter's best friend.
The apartments were obliterated when a Russian missile crashed into this residential block, which sits beside a school in a neighbourhood just near the botanical gardens of Uman, a central Ukrainian city that before the war was known mostly as a Jewish pilgrimage site.
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