Saltivka Awaits Good News from Lugano

The Ukrainian Economic Ministry and the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) estimate that at least a total of 45 million square meters of houses were destroyed during the war.

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Children play in the field in front of an apartment that was destroyed by a Russian missile in Borodyanka, Kyiv province, Ukraine, June 17, 2022.

Vera Dmitrivna (65) was unaware of the meeting between Ukrainian authorities and representatives of several countries and institutions in Lugano, Switzerland on 4-5 July 2022. She only knew that the Ukrainian government was trying to ensure that her apartment unit in the Saltivka area, Kharkiv, would be habitable again.

She left the apartment complex in March 2022 because the Saltivka area continued to be targeted by Russian rockets. The Kharkiv provincial administration and the Kharkiv military-operations command center deemed the area too dangerous for civilians. Thus, residents were asked to evacuate.