In Pics: Ukrainians Carrying Scars Of Battle Begin Daunting Rebuild
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Roofs gone, facades pockmarked by shrapnel or rifle fire, chunks bitten out, Ukraine's Kharkiv
Galyna Kios had been surviving with family and neighbours in her gloomy basement, cooking on a makeshift wood-fired stove, when the Russians came.
The troops had been biding their time outside Mala Rogan, 32 kilometres (20 miles) from Ukraine's northeast border with Russia, but decided to take the village two weeks into the war.
"You have to leave because we need the whole street," Kios remembers the soldier telling her, just before the invading force took over her two-storey house.
The occupation was short-lived -- the invaders were driven out by the Ukrainian army after a fortnight of fierce fighting -- but it was enough time to leave Kios's street in ruins.
