Kharkiv residents: a life under constant Russian fire | DW News

The city of Kharkiv is a constant target of Russia's aerial assault on Ukraine. Sitting close to the Russian border, it has come under repeated attacks in almost two years of war. DW Correspondent Max Zander travelled to the city and met residents who have chosen to remain there – living a life under fire.

For more on this, we talk to Maria Avdeeva. She is a Ukrainian security analyst who is originally from Kharkiv and joins us now from Sweden’s capital Stockholm.

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[bombayvega]

hotels must be filled with tourists in these peaceful days.

[Blastsniper]

Remember that this conflict has the lowest amount of civilian casualties out of any conflict of this magnitude.

[mango]

Its remarkable how this city has held out for 2 years despite being very close to the border

[thalentekhuluse]

This is nothing... you should see what Israle is doing in Gaza....

[ypyp]

Imagine what those people would be experiencing if in Gaza. The Russians could flatten the place if they wanted, but they have chosen not to, unlike the fascists in tel Aviv.

[earlr]

Why target Kharkiv so often ?
Maybe the fact that its the 2nd largest City in Ukraine has something to do with it.

[musiconabudget]

Compared to gaza this looks like nothing

[bojanm]

Still no report about Carlson-Putin interview, DW? Pathetic...

[rouz]

DW have started asking strange questions recently 😂. It is damn front line there 💁🏻

[andyrusso]

Why is Ukrainian troops bombarding civilians in Donesk?

[trevorsutherland]

Hotels full of NATO troops, right? This is not journalism; you didn't talk to any of the people staying there waiting to be liberated.

[paulwalker]

As its a transport and network hub - The hotels house the mercenaries. Nothing on Baerbocks grandfather?

[Robert-tmp]

I recommend D. W to learn a good lesson from Tucker Carlson

[hustlerzentertainment]

i thought the Russian army was destroyed, ran out of missiles and busy scraping washing machines ?

[agent]

Because there are many mercenaries in the hotels

[vakaman]

DW please take care of the prigozhin bots in the comment

[JohnJones-kd]

Meanwhile in Gaza.

We see now that compared to nato in Iraq and Israel in Gaza, Russia is treating Ukraine civilians very lightly.

[chipsgamingchannel]

Why dont they just evacuate the population of that city to somewhere else for safety?

[topweddingsa]

Emotional reporting that we don't see for Gaza!!! Here it seems like Ukraine matter than Palestine

[mikejohn]

Umm because Ukraine is targeting belgorod mainly from there 🤷🏽‍♂️