This is my second visit to the five-storey block of apartment 425A in Borodyanka, northwest of the capital Kyiv in Ukraine, on Thursday, Nov 3, 2022. The night before, it started raining in the Kyiv region. The roof of the block of apartments where the residents survived a Russian execution is demolished. The construction skeleton appears weak and on the edge of collapse, with local authorities neglecting intervention.
Halina is 73; lives on the top floor. Her ceiling meets the roof that hasn't been fixed yet, regardless of subsequent appeals to local authorities from her and her neighbours. I visited her, and she told me she woke up coughing and completely wet. The roof leaked entirely throughout the night. I found Halina angry and weeping while she tried to suck and squeeze water using a cloth. (VX Photo/ Vudi Xhymshiti)