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Life Inside Ukraine's 'Fortress Cities' Under Russian Assault
Original: What Life Looks Like in the ‘Fortress Cities’ Russia Is Trying to Break
The New York Times is reporting on daily life in Ukraine's so-called fortress cities — heavily fortified urban strongholds in the east that Russia has spent months trying to capture. The report describes how residents survive under constant shelling and dwindling services while Ukrainian defenders hold the lines. Readers are sharing and discussing the piece as fighting continues around cities such as Pokrovsk and others in the Donbas region.
Why now: Ongoing Russian offensives against fortified eastern Ukrainian cities are keeping attention on civilian life at the front line.
UkraineRussiaThe New York TimesDonbasPokrovsk
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- What Life Looks Like in the ‘Fortress Cities’ Russia Is Trying to Break · The New York Times
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