As Ukraine rebuilds amid constant Russian attack, small towns and villages are being sidelined

By Doug Specht, Reader in Cultural Geography and Communication, University of Westminster
Rob Sharp, Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex

In the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian armoured columns pushed east along the Zhytomyr highway towards Kyiv. Makariv, a small settlement of about 10,000 people 36 miles west of Kyiv, sat on their route. The town was wrecked in the month of fighting that ensued.

Roughly 40% of the settlement’s infrastructure was destroyed and the bodies of 132 executed civilians were recovered by April 2022.…

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