8: Sacred ground

What keeps the people going in the twice-destroyed Peremoha.

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The podcast is part of the project «De-occupied: stories of the liberated territories.» Supported by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Kyiv office, Ukraine.

This is a story of one Chernihiv building after the Chornobyl reactor explosion and before the Russian bomb attack.

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The podcast is part of the project «De-occupied: stories of the liberated territories.» Supported by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Kyiv office, Ukraine.

This is a story about a former arts and crafts teacher who defends the Ukrainian border in the Sumy region and builds memorials for fallen comrades.

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The podcast is part of the project «De-occupied: stories of the liberated territories.» Supported by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Kyiv office, Ukraine.

As thousands of people, on foot and in cars, wade through the muddy field outside the village, trying to make their way to the one road leading out of besieged Chernihiv, a Russian bomb falls and injures Liubov’s leg.

This is a story about how Liubov Prochukhan, 74, lost her leg in a village at the front line and regained her ability to dance.

You can read the story in text right here.

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The podcast is part of the project «De-occupied: stories of the liberated territories.» Supported by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Kyiv office, Ukraine.