Our reporter witnesses family reunion after a bicycle flight across the front: “I thought I’d lost them forever”

After a blitz offensive by the Ukrainian army in early September that liberated countless towns and cities, it is now a matter of consolidating positions and securing recaptured territories. In Kupyansk, a key hub for Russia, the Russians are fighting back in a desperate attempt to contain the damage. Yevgen Shevchenko (35) narrowly escaped. “My house was hit by a Russian missile yesterday, everything was destroyed. I held out as long as I could but it got too dangerous.”

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