Inside Kharkiv as Russia advances
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The Guardian
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:09.0 | Today, raving under Russian fire, a weekend in Harkiv. |
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| 1:06.0 | We were taking a stroll in Shevchenko Park, which is in the center of Haakiv. |
| 1:15.0 | It was a really nice warm sunny day, teenage skateboarders practicing their tricks. |
| 1:20.7 | People were sitting outside chatting, drinking coffees, there was some pensioners sitting on benches and sort of whiling the day away. |
| 1:29.0 | Sean Walker is a guardian correspondent based in Eastern Europe and he spent the past Saturday afternoon in a park in Harkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, recording the things he heard. |
| 1:41.4 | And then at about 10 to 3, there's this sort of deep resonating explosion. |
| 1:49.0 | Sounds a bit like a bolt of thunder kind of rumbling afterwards. |
| 1:54.6 | When you looked around see this very split second of hyper-awareness of stopping in their tracks, but it was almost imperceptible and then this |
| 2:17.3 | previous scene just continued and people just continued getting on with the day. |
| 2:26.0 | Which is not that surprising given that for the last few weeks, |
| 2:30.0 | pretty much every day, sometimes several times a day, there are air strikes, missile strikes on |
| 2:37.8 | Harkiv. By now the reflex is that you hear it, you make an immediate judgment that it's not somewhere |
| 2:46.0 | super close to you, and then you just get on with your day, maybe 20 minutes later you open up |
| 2:52.1 | a telegram channel and check to see where it was and how many people died. |
| 3:10.0 | For a long time the war in Ukraine has been a stalemate, but it's not that anymore. Russia is on the march. Over the past week it started what some are calling its summer |
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