At the borders with Poland and Slovakia, thousands of Ukrainians are also queuing to leave the country. Two million of them have already gone into exile. According to the United Nations, nearly 4 million people will have left the country soon. Unprecedented in Europe since 1939-45.

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At 4:17 p.m., on all fronts, young men are dying. More than a hundred per day on the Russian side, according to the CIA, roughly as many on the Ukrainian side. Tonight, two hundred Russian and Ukrainian mothers will fall asleep without news. They will not know for a long time that their son is dead.

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At the same second, somewhere in a Russian base in Belarus, a bomber pilot prepares his flight plan for the next attack. I cannot imagine what he feels, what is in his head. Probably he believes he is denazifying Ukraine.

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At 4:17 p.m., at the same moment, 70 km further north, in Malyn, still hit during the night, a family buries a man, a body still lies in front of a flattened house, human pieces litter the ruins and a woman implores the world repeating the same phrase: 'Close the sky!'

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The Russian General Staff struck a building that housed a garrison during the USSR era, but is apparently unaware that since 1990, a large part of the apartments have been privatized and are inhabited by civilians. Lilia lived here with her two children.

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It is 4:17 PM on March 9, 2022, in Ukraine. In Zhytomyr, Sergiy, a firefighter, is using his hands to move burning bricks from the base of a collapsed building. With his team, he is trying to locate a body beneath the mass of concrete.

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Bomb after bomb, Jytomyr withers, dies down, barriers rise, weapons bristle, faces close up, all shops are closed, sirens howl and residents endure, seal, repair, clear debris, heal.

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As I write these lines, planes are flying over Zhytomyr, with explosions from nearby bombings growing louder or softer. The city isn’t being pounded by heavy bombing raids. Instead, it’s hit sporadically—three, four, five times a day—and the frequency is increasing.

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Briefly. War. Day 14. digest
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Sumy Region. Soldiers of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine have destroyed about two dozen units of Russian occupation forces' equipment. They were attempting to enter one of the settlements. https://facebook.com/GeneralStaff.ua/posts/268768762102876?__cft__[0]=AZVt1O2DPqflFV5GfldIKAOfex6zml_t6TeSXRgOUu9wtKMyTJ5RicleG9-FrF7aYWmyA93VlBfk1n2bWqdnXwHKFl4PonswjiENtGqTj3GLtceGmWrNhImSE2wAggqjplm0B1tzEqOPUCyqdj-KiYFqBC2IN9zgXEMgiriSFoK0Nw&__tn__=OP-R
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