Posted on Mar 10, 2022
Woman who survived siege of Leningrad as a girl now trapped in Kharkiv
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Alevtina Shernina was a young girl when she survived the brutal siege of Leningrad during the second world war. Eight decades later, so frail she can barely talk, or move unassisted, she is besieged again.
Woman who survived siege of Leningrad as a girl now trapped in Kharkiv
Posted from theguardian.com
WWII World War Two
Russia
Ukraine
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."The 91-year-old lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city and one of the most battered urban areas in Russia’s invasion. The bombardment has come so close that windows in her apartment building were blown out.
A member of the territorial defence forces of Ukraine stands inside the damaged Kharkiv regional administration building in the aftermath of a shelling.
‘Constant shelling’ as Russian forces lay siege to key Ukrainian cities.
And yet Shernina cannot flee, even to a bomb shelter. Her heart problems leave her too fragile to be carried down the flights of stairs to the basement when the air raid sirens sound.
..."The 91-year-old lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city and one of the most battered urban areas in Russia’s invasion. The bombardment has come so close that windows in her apartment building were blown out.
A member of the territorial defence forces of Ukraine stands inside the damaged Kharkiv regional administration building in the aftermath of a shelling.
‘Constant shelling’ as Russian forces lay siege to key Ukrainian cities.
And yet Shernina cannot flee, even to a bomb shelter. Her heart problems leave her too fragile to be carried down the flights of stairs to the basement when the air raid sirens sound.
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