Hasty Russian retreat leaves devastated Ukrainian village

Devastated Ukrainian village emerges from Russian occupation

HRAKOVE, Ukraine (AP) — There’s not much left of Hrakove. Its houses and shops lie in ruins, its school is a bombed-out hull. The church is scarred by rockets and shells, but the golden dome above its blasted belfry still gleams in the fading autumn light.Only about 30 people remain, living in basements and gutted buildings in this small village southeast of Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, according to resident Anatolii Klyzhen. About 1,…

Devastated Ukrainian village emerges from Russian occupation

HRAKOVE, Ukraine — There’s not much left of Hrakove. Its houses and shops lie in ruins, its school is a bombed-out hull. The church is scarred by rockets and shells, but the golden dome above its blasted belfry still gleams in the fading autumn light.Only about 30 people remain, living in basements and gutted buildings in this small village southeast of Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, according to resident Anatolii Klyzhen. About 1,000 l…

Devastated Ukrainian village emerges from Russian occupation

HRAKOVE, Ukraine (AP) — There’s not much left of Hrakove. Its houses and shops lie in ruins, its school is a bombed-out hull. The church is scarred by...

Devastated Ukrainian Village Emerges From Russian Occupation

HRAKOVE, Ukraine (AP) — There’s not much left of Hrakove. Its houses and shops lie in ruins, its school is a bombed-out hull. The church is scarred by rockets and shells, but the golden dome above its blasted belfry still gleams in the fading autumn light.

Scenes of devastation emerge from Ukrainian village freed from Russian occupation

There's not much left of Hrakove, Ukraine — its houses and shops lie in ruins, its school is a bombed-out hull and the church is scarred by rockets and shells.

Devastated Ukrainian village emerges from Russian occupation

Approximately 30 people remain in the village of Hrakove, a small village southeast of Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, after Russian forces fled as Ukrainian soldiers advanced in a lightning counteroffensive.