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KAMYANKA, Ukraine — Two weeks after Ukraine liberated this village in the Kharkiv region in September 2022, Viktor, a local farmer and tractor driver, and his wife Larissa returned to their home for the first time since the Russian occupation. Half a year earlier, the couple had managed to escape the advancing Russian army. For the next six months, their village lay on the frontlines of Russia’s war against Ukraine. “When we came back and saw all the destruction with our own eyes, we felt hatred towards the occupiers and were disgusted that the enemy’s feet had trampled on our land,” Larissa s…

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