Villager Yurii stands in the library of the school where he worked which was destroyed during heavy fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces in the village of Dolyna in the Donetsk region. — Reuters
THERE used to be about 500 residents in Dolyna. Today, there are only a handful.
The picturesque village, near the border of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Kharkiv regions, was one of many in the area that became fierce battlegrounds in the spring and summer of 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine. Almost all of the residents fled.
