From the war-wrecked remains of Chasiv Yar’s cultural palace — it still bears the props and background displays of last year’s Christmas celebrations — he distributes some 2,000 loaves of bread, bags of rice and pasta, wood, tarpaulin and other humanitarian supplies. For days, word has filtered through of Russian forces making headway in their fight for Bakhmut; day by day the sounds of war approach ever closer to Chasiv Yar and its surrounding areas, even as Ukrainians dig new trenches on its edge for new defensive lines. Yet Andrei, an avuncular administrator responsible for three villages adjacent to Chasiv Dar, seems unconcerned.
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