in Vasilkov “we started to purify the blood, but it is difficult”

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The war between Ukraine and Russia file In the garrison city, located south of Kyiv, especially under attack by the Russian army since the beginning of the war, residents and territorial forces settled in a small school, which became their neighborhood general, resisted and are organized together.

In the hallway leading to the classrooms, there is still an undried bloodstain next to a bag of onions and boxes of extracted clothes. Another much wider, in an arc, is inlaid on the cladding that leads to the sinks where the body is dragged. This bloody school in the town of Vasilkov, about forty kilometers southwest of Kyiv (Kyiv), was hit Tuesday night by Wednesday, which Ukrainian forces fear most, with airstrikes: the attack of a Russian commando infiltrated for days or a few weeks, which hits the most sensitive place in the city.

Like all schools in the country, Vasilkov’s is no longer a school. The students are either at home, in exile, or in shelters. Since the beginning of the invasion, on February 24, the gray building has served as the headquarters of the selected city officials who are still there, and of the volunteers from the territorial forces, the civilians who are taking over …