"It's not victory now, it's just the beginning. It will be victory when they are all gone, said Roman, a Ukrainian soldier, interviewed by France 24 on the ruins of what remains of the Hostomel Airport, north of kyiv Taken by the Russians in the early days of the war, the airport is now under Ukrainian control, at the cost of heavy losses.
Not far from there, many towns were totally destroyed.
In the kyiv region, 400 bodies of civilians were found.
Faced with the chaos, the inhabitants who stayed behind are trying to survive without electricity or information.
Reporting by Gulliver Cragg and Eliott Samuel.
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