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A Letter From Kharkiv

By: Ievgeniia Gubkina

Ukraine's second city, once capital of Soviet Ukraine and a centre of socialist experiment in the 1920s, has been shelled for months. How will it survive the scale of destruction?

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I feel that the first day of the war is still going on. Days don’t turn into nights. So as not to drown in unreality, you have to constantly return in your memory to striking, traumatic moments and the most vivid worries of the war: those who have OCD, bipolar disorder, or borderline personality disorder […]

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I feel that the first day of the war is still going on. Days don’t turn into nights. So as not to drown in unreality, you have to constantly return in your memory to striking, traumatic moments and the most vivid worries of the war: those who have OCD, bipolar disorder, or borderline personality disorder […]

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I feel that the first day of the war is still going on. Days don’t turn into nights. So as not to drown in unreality, you have to constantly return in your memory to striking, traumatic moments and the most vivid worries of the war: those who have OCD, bipolar disorder, or borderline personality disorder […]

I feel that the first day of the war is still going on. Days don’t turn into nights. So as not to drown in unreality, you have to constantly return in your memory to striking, traumatic moments and the most vivid worries of the war: those who have OCD, bipolar disorder, or borderline personality disorder […]

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