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A Kharkiv area had avoided the worst of the shelling. That changed on Tuesday.

For 46 days, Flower Street in Babai, a small town outside the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, had avoided the shellings so common on its periphery since the Russian invasion began. Most residents there had seemed unperturbed over the last several days, listening as the thuds and crumps got closer.

But around 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, their luck ran out. A Russian cluster munition dispensed its explosives up and down the street, leaving a trail of craters, punctured roofs and casualties. One shredded the side of an aging tan sedan. Another peeled back a fence.

And one explosive killed an electrician as he was working on a power pylon outside the brick house at No. 12 Flower Street.

Two other people in the neighborhood were wounded during the attack, as was one woman’s dog, Glasha. Read more

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