'Explosions everywhere' as Ukraine forces recapture eastern village of Grakove

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Only about 30 of the village's 800 pre-war inhabitants remain. Read more at straitstimes.com.

GRAKOVE, Ukraine - Electric pylons toppled, cables strewn across the ground; gutted houses and roads dotted with craters - the village of Grakove in eastern Ukraine bears the scars of Ukraine's bitter counter-offensive.

Among the debris scattered through Grakove - and in front of houses still inhabited - dogs and cats search for scraps of food.The road leading to Grakove from Ukraine's second city Kharkiv, a regional hub, is lined with the skeletons of cars destroyed in explosions or crushed by tanks.Disarmed mines are scattered around the side of the road, waiting to be picked up. A tow truck carries off a captured Russian military vehicle.

In the village, police and a team from the Kharkiv region's prosecutors office exhume the bodies of two men aged in their thirties.Police and a team from the Kharkiv region's prosecutors office exhume the bodies of two men aged in their thirties. PHOTO: REUTERS

 

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