I was in a five-storey building, she explained , speaking from a centre for the displaced in nearby Kharkiv. I don't know whether it was a Russian missile or bomb that hit the building but it started a fire, and when the flames reached my floor, I was stuck because the door was damaged and I couldn't escape. The Ukrainian military, she said, saved her life.
Ukraine's war is starting to go below ground. Russian troops were recently found attempting to infiltrate battle lines in Kharkiv by crawling through an underground pipe, with Kyiv's forces trying to stop them by flooding or fortifying such ducts. Ukrainian observers publicly identified the pipeline tactic last week in Kupiansk, a city in the Kharkiv region that has seen heavy fighting along the front lines.
