‘They’re Hunting Me.’ Life as a Ukrainian Mayor on the Front Line

She’s been almost killed six times. She sleeps on a cot in a hallway. She makes $375 a month, and her city in southern Ukraine has become one of the war’s most pummeled places, fired on by Russian artillery nearly every hour.

But Halyna Luhova, the mayor of Kherson, isn’t giving up, even though the Russians are sitting just across the river and shelling her city nearly every hour. Read more

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