Welcome to episode #3 of the Regional Voices of Wartime Ukraine’s podcast made by UCMC
The entire border with Russia has become a deadly divide between two worlds, and the people of the Semenivka community in Chernihiv are often caught in the crossfire. Located in the Novgorod-Siversky district, this community, which shares the region’s longest border with Russia (138 kilometres), is frequently mentioned in daily reports of enemy shelling.
The Russian military kills civilians, destroys homes, farms, and equipment, relentlessly attacking the town and nearby villages with artillery, mortars, Grads, Shaheds, unguided bombs, and missiles.
After more than two years of full-scale war, most villages in this region, marked as “possible hostilities areas,” have become desolate. Some are now wastelands—a grey zone…
So how does a Community with a 138-Kilometer Border with the Enemy Continues to Survive listen, in the podcast.
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Supported by the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine. The views of the authors do not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Government.