scenes of desolation in Saltivka, an almost completely evacuated district of Kharkiv

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Kharkiv is the second largest city in Ukraine. It is located in the northeast of the country, an area on which Russia says it is now concentrating its forces. The journalist Maryse Burgot is present on site, Tuesday, March 29.

What is the situation in Kharkiv (Ukraine), Tuesday, March 29? “We find ourselves this morning in the Saltivka district, it is a residential and popular district of Kharkiv, the second city of the country. Behind me, buildings whose all the windows have been blown out”says Maryse Burgot, special correspondent in Kharkiv. “Almost all the buildings in this residential district of Kharkiv were hit by the bombardments”says the journalist.

The neighborhood was evacuated, and only a few residents are still in shelters. “Destroyed cars everywhere, charred by the bombardments, and still regularly we still hear bombardments. Everywhere electric wires hanging down, there is no more electricity, no more gas in this whole neighborhood”also indicates Maryse Burgot.

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