Kharkiv: two friends' on their city's plight - a podcast by BBC Radio 4

There’s hardly an area of Kharkiv that an artillery shell has not hit. Ukraine’s second city has faced bombing for days, an attack on their main government HQ and is now seeing Russian paratroopers landing on the ground. Today’s Martha Kearney speaks to two friends from Kharkiv living different lives at the moment. Glib Mazepa is a resident in Kharkiv who’s decided to stay in the city and is helping to collect materials for Molotov cocktails. His friend, Oleksandr Zinyenko left the city and is now in the west of Ukraine in Lviv.

(Image: Oleksandr, left and Glib with his wife Katie, right)

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