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Sergey Bibikov stands in a damaged stairwell in his building in Kharkiv's northern Saltivka neighborhood. Hundreds of residential and commercial buildings in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city located approximately 45km from the Russian border, have been damaged and destroyed by Russia in its ongoing war against Ukraine. Sizeable regions of Kharkiv, a city of approximately 1.5 million people before Russia's full-scale invasion, are largely empty as many residents have fled the violence. Kharkiv, Ukraine, June 14, 2022