(MENAFN) One Russian attack was halted in front of Maria Metla's house while combat raged all around Kyiv. The majority of the home was destroyed by artillery, and the remainder by tank fire.
66-year-old Metla is now depending on her neighbors to have a place to stay this winter.
Most mornings, groups of volunteers arrive to remove everything that may be recycled. They arrange orderly heaps of bricks, dismantled kitchen equipment for use as scrap metal, and pieces of insulating panels.
The rescued materials are repurposed to aid in the reconstruction of residences that were damaged along the perimeter of Russia's failed effort to encircle and seize Ukraine's capital during the early stages of the war.
Intense combat took place in Novoselivka, a hamlet 140 kilometers (almost 90 miles) north of Kyiv, during the 36-day assault on the city. Heavy machine gun fire has crumpled metal doors, and homes like Metla's were destroyed by ground and aircraft bombardment.
“We dragged what we could to the basement. Five bombs ‒ one, two, three, four, five ‒ exploded in the field behind us,” Meta remarked as she stood in the living room of her demolished home. As a memento of life before the war, she maintains a burnt exercise bike and a religious image of St. Nicholas.
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