![]() One woman cuts through old pipes with a power saw. They rhythmically sway and shuffle to the music. LONSDORF: The kids Hanna is referring to are the dozen or so 20- and 30-somethings clearing away the rubble. ![]() H YURCHENKO: (Through interpreter) I came to this cleanup by myself, but I'm just so grateful for these kids. This is the small village of Kolichivka in northeastern Ukraine, which was under heavy attack in the early weeks of Russia's large-scale invasion. LONSDORF: On the 7 of March, she says, she watched as not one but several rockets hit her home. She can't rebuild until it's been cleared. Hanna hands apples to the workers shoveling piles of debris into metal buckets, clearing away the destruction so that the house can someday be rebuilt. It's a grim setting, but the mood is light. ![]() She walks around what was once her home, now not much more than a foundation littered with broken brick and shards of glass. It's a drizzly afternoon on one of the first cool days of fall. KAT LONSDORF, BYLINE: Sixty-six-year-old Hanna Yurchenko carries a basket full of apples freshly picked from the trees next door. ![]() War is awful, but war cleanup - one grassroots organization in Ukraine is trying to make it fun by bringing young people from the cities into villages destroyed by fighting. ![]()
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