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Bomb by Bomb, the Slow Death of My Hometown in Ukraine

New York Times29 September 2026, 09:01 UTCUkraine

It was possible, for a time, to think that Kramatorsk, where I was born and raised, would survive the war mostly unscathed. Not any more.

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