Kyiv region after Russian retreat still struggles 6 months
Handsome rooms, a hand-carved wooden bed and a chest of drawers he intended to leave to his grandchildren on his phone Vadym Zherdetsky shows photos of how it once looked, standing amid the wreckage of his home. In February when Russia invaded Ukraine, on the outskirts of the capital two missiles struck the house in the tiny village of Moschun, ripping off the roof and nearly killing four family members. In April the town was recaptured from Russian forces, but in the Kyiv region Zherdetsky’s house, like many others, remains in ruins. The 51-year-old said, wiping away tears “Everything changed. Our lives changed”. “we are alive and healthy and Thank God it was only property. I don’t know where our kids and grandkids will live. I don’t know anything”. From the towns around Kyiv more than six months after Russian forces retreated, to rebuild their lives residents of those communities are still struggling. An estimated 1 million people, half the number who fl...