Yana Koshelyeva lived in Australia for years before returning to her country of birth, Ukraine. Now she's sheltering in Kharkiv, refusing to leave her family or beloved pets.
Yana Koshelyeva calls Australia her second home. She lived here for years before returning to her country of birth, Ukraine, in 2017."Me and my mum, we are hiding in the basement shelter of our apartment house," she told 7.30.
She cares for her mother, who is a widow. Ms Koshelyeva's father died of COVID-19. She also runs an animal rescue service."We don't want the city to be destroyed... My city is my soul, so it's what belongs to my heart.A residential building damaged by shelling in Kharkiv."It's a big risk to run out of food completely, just because Kharkiv literally has just one exit towards other directions... so basically, Kharkiv is locked from all sides," she told 7.30.
Max Bergmann is a former US State Department advisor, now with the Center for American Progress. He believed Vladimir Putin was about to escalate his offensive. "The fear now is that Russia will shift to a much more kinetic approach where they will resort to using a lot of long range fires, bombing of cities, and this could get much more bloody I think in the coming hours, coming days."
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