The testimony: “My mother in Moscow does not believe in the dead I see in Kharkiv”

KHARKIV – Her mother Natalia doesn’t believe her. She says that the photos of the bombings, of the destroyed houses, of the blood on the streets, of the corpses lying on the ground are the product of clever Photoshop retouching artfully circulated by the Kiev government. Olga, who fled from Moscow two years ago “to avoid living under Putin’s regime” and has now been sleeping for twenty-five days in the seats of carriage 1 of a train of the Kharkiv metro, has stopped talking to her.