"It barely exists anymore," said the mayor of Vovchansk, an industrial town razed by a Russian onslaught shocking even for the killing fields of eastern Ukraine.
Vovchansk has no great history but its geography could not be more tragic. Just 5 kilometers from the Russian border, drone footage from the Ukrainian military this summer shows a lunar landscape of ruins stretching for kilometers.
And it has gotten worse since.
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