Kyiv ¨C Olha and her husband, Roman, stood on a concrete platform, carefully avoiding debris and shards of glass, staring at the smoldering building that contained the apartment they moved into one year ago.
A group of firefighters was trying to put out a blaze that had destroyed part of the structure, while emergency workers carried a stretcher from the eighth floor down the stairway.
Olha and Roman had chosen the neighborhood of Lukianivka in Kyiv because it was known as the Ukrainian capital¡¯s ¡°quiet center,¡± said Olha, 32.
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