KYIV, Dec 26 — Anna Holubtsova was getting ready to sing at the concert organised in Kyiv by the Bakhmut administration, exiled since Russian forces devastated and seized their...
Internally displaced people, members of the diaspora from Bakhmut and National Exemplary Band of the Armed Forces of Ukraine anthem of Ukraine perform during a Christmas concert organised by the exiled Bakhmut city hall in Kyiv, on December 23, 2024. — AFP picas a first-time user .
“Maybe I am a dreamer or a fairytale maker. But I have said and will continue to say that my family will be one of the first to return and rebuild Bakhmut,” she said.Ukraine’s army is on the backfoot in most parts of the front while Russia presses on with its advantage ahead of the inauguration next month of US president-elect Donald Trump.
The crowd slowly made its way into the concert hall, where people watched, clapped and teared up as community members followed one another on stage.After a short interruption from Santa Claus, the concert ended with a military orchestra whose singers danced with children.She said one of her neighbours had been shot dead on her way to a henhouse.Zyzyaeva made her way with her daughter to Kyiv, where she was struggling to rent a one-room apartment.
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