Galyna Kiosk has survived with family and neighbors in her gloomy basement, cooking on an emergency wood stove, when Russia came.
The troops had controlled their time outside Mala Rogan, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from the northeast border of Ukraine with Russia, but decided to take villages two weeks into the war.
“You have to go because we need the whole road,” the kiosk remembers the soldier told him, right before the attacking forces took over his two -story house.
The occupation was short-lived-the invaders were expelled by the Ukrainian army after two weeks of fierce battles.
“I see what they have done to my house, what is left. What emotions can I be able to? Homssion material is not commensurate with your life,” the mother of four children, 67, told AFP.
“So I think, ‘I am happy, that with God’s will, I live.’ Everything that is missing is material, we can rebuild or renew it. “
Since then, he has been licking, sweeping, exploring, and rubbing – sometimes with his family but often alone – like thousands of Ukraina returning to the house that is released but destroyed in the east of the country.
Scars of battle
The Kharkiv region of 2.7 million people including Mala Rogan saw 90 percent of housing destroyed in areas taken back from Russia, local media reported in May, quoting the Governor.
There is less than a dozen property on the dusty road of kiosks, and each has a battle scars disappeared, the facade dissolved by broken bullets or rifles, bitten pieces.
At the top of the hill, one house was very scorched that it looked volcanic, the obsidian wall rose on a pile of personal effects and boots of Russian army.
Two houses have armored vehicles burning in their entrances, one spray is painted with “death to enemy” in Ukraine.
Nearby, a T-72 Soviet era tank with its male exploded on the road, the corpse of the wild animal that was once formed, greedily picked clean and left to the elements.
Six explosions with varying intensity – almost certainly shot a few kilometers away – heard when the kiosk worked through lunch.
Some houses came down, Nadia Ilchenko had brought her daughter and her grandchildren who were nine years old to Mala Rogan at the beginning of the war.
He reasoned that it would be safer than living in their home short driving in the city of Kharkiv, but immediately realized that he had misjudged the situation.
‘Burned down’
In the midst of heavy shootings in the village, the 69 -year -old man sent them again and fled with her husband on March 19.
During his exile, he glanced at the video of his burning house, the garage was destroyed along with a motorcycle and two children’s bicycles.
“I returned on May 19, and my blood pressure was still high. We have spent almost two months, my husband and I, trying to clean it,” he said.
Humanitarian volunteers help eliminate debris but the front of the property is still messy and a lot of work remains.
“Russia is in our house and there are so many who were shot, burning, which we could not use anymore,” he said.
“The only thing I like now, the only thing that makes me warm, is the flowers in the park -even though they even park the Russian tank at that.”
Ilchenko described the reaction of his grandchildren’s trauma when they returned home.
“Why do they do this to you?” The young girl asked, surveying the chaos in front of them.
“I told him that I did not know and my grandchildren became hysterical,” Ilchenko said.
“It’s hard to stop him crying, stopping him crying.”
