Ukraine shelter residents mark each day alive with a red cross

The bombardments have destroyed a school and several homes during the Russian advance and the counter-offensive by Ukrainian forces

"We put a cross for every day spent here alive," says Nadia Ryjkova, 76, in a dark underground shelter in the northeastern Ukrainian village of Kutuzivka, where she lives with about 50 people.

Without a telephone connection, she has no news of her children and loved ones, but reassures herself: "I live with hope that they are alive.

Originally published as Ukraine shelter residents mark each day alive with a red cross