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Sergey Kushnarenko remembers seeing roughly 10 residential buildings bombed in his hometown of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, a city 450 miles east of Kyiv, shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 24.
In the first few days of the war, the 28-year-old remembers waking up every night next to his pregnant wife, Sofia, 22, and their daughter Ellen, 2, in their apartment to the sounds of explosions, sirens and low-flying planes.
