Kharkiv metro is a 'city' where hundreds shelter from bombardment


FILE PHOTO: People shelter from shelling in a metro station, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kharkiv, Ukraine March 10, 2022. REUTERS/Vitalii Hnidyi/File Photo

KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - Deep under the streets of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine hundreds of people are sheltering from fierce Russian bombardment, occupying the Heroiv Pratsi metro station where they do what they can to get comfortable.

From tiny babies to the elderly, residents sit or lie on mattresses and blankets arranged on the ground beside ticket machines, on platforms and inside trains halted alongside.

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