![]() Most just want to go home, if home still stands.Īs many as 50 have found shelter in a nine-story building on Trylovskoho Boulevard. Others have put down the first fragile roots. Some plan to move on, perhaps crossing the border to nearby Poland and beyond. Many sleep on mats in cultural centers and schools, shelter in crowded rooms with relatives and friends. They all escaped to Lviv, along with some 500,000 others - a small fraction of the 10 million Ukrainians who have been chased by war from their homes and resettled elsewhere in the country. There is the woman who fled Kharkiv, becoming displaced for the second time in a decade. There is the family that spent hours in their basement shelter in Irpin, trapped between armies. There is the couple who lament that they may never live in the house being built for them in bloody Bucha. But behind every lighted window is a story. ![]() LVIV, Ukraine (AP) - The Soviet-era apartment blocks at the end of a tram line in this western Ukrainian city show an indifferent face to the world, blank and gray.
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