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After missile strike near Kyiv, volunteers and one café owner help stitch life back together
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But within hours early Monday, it was transformed again — this time by volunteers who rushed in to stitch life back together.
Tractors and earth movers were used to clear rubble while neighbors hammered in particle boards and pieces of tarp over broken windows.
If they had stayed in their apartments, they would not have survived.”AdvertisingBy morning, the café had become a hub of recovery.
Together, they make it through.”For Oksana and Mykola Pastukh, that help is all that remains.
The couple, aged 58 and 67, respectively, had just bought a townhouse — one week before it was gutted by the missile blast.