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A dispatch from Ukraine’s Pokrovsk: Heartbreak at the station

6 September 2024

4:40 PM

6 September 2024

4:40 PM

The sounds of protracted artillery battles boom and echo over the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk with a nerve-wracking consistency. From morning until night, the Ukrainians and Russians fire endlessly upon one another from the suburbs. Billboards with a simple message, ‘Evacuate’, daubed in giant red lettering line most of the major routes through the city.

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