Ukrainian forces liberate village outside Kharkiv

HEARTBROKEN Ukrainian civilians return to desolate remains of their liberated villages outside Kharkiv for the first time.

A weeping Tatyana Pochivalova kneels on the earth and kisses it, her first time returning to her village outside the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv in two months.

This tiny, battered hamlet of Vilkhivka is testament to the bitter fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops.

It was recaptured early in April, and former residents are still trickling back.

Pochivalova was surprised and overjoyed to discover some of her livestock still here.

But there is little else left.

"I have not expected anything like this, such aggression, such destruction. I came and I kissed the ground, I simply kissed it. My home, there is nothing. Where am I to live, how am I to live?"

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