'Not my life': An apartment block reflects the new Ukraine
Iryna and Volodymyr, internally displaced from Irpin, lean on each other, on the stairwell near an apartment they took refuge in with four other adults from Irpin, in Lviv, western Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. Iryna and her husband Volodymyr were trapped for days between Ukrainian and Russian forces and quickly learned to distinguish between incoming and outgoing fire. They took shelter in a basement and whenever the shelling eased, they climbed out to shout to their neighbors to see if they were still alive. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
By CARA ANNA and SUSIE BLANN
Associated Press
LVIV, Ukraine — The Soviet-era apartment blocks at the end of a tram line in this western Ukrainian city show an indifferent face to the world, blank and gray. But behind every lighted window is a story...
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