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"The morgue in Kharkiv was overflowing.

In the courtyard outside, scores of black & green body bags were stacked along 2 of its walls. On the other side, dozens more victims of Russia’s assault on this eastern city lay exposed to the elements."

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“We need body bags,” morgue director Yuriy Nikolaevich explained.

Or at least plastic wrap, he said.

There was nothing left to use to hand the dead back to their families: “There are no coffins left in the city.”

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"Russian forces have rained down a daily shower of artillery fire, missiles and rockets, which appear to strike at random in civilian neighborhoods...

evidence of cluster bombs being used in the area around the main market in the city center."

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"Even in the icy temperatures, the stench of death from the bodies in the nearby yard had started to sour the air...

...a Ukrainian territorial defense soldier warned of what lies ahead.

“Be careful,” he said. “The sky is on fire there.”"

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"After heavy bombardment on Monday night, a newly spent cluster bomb carrier was wedged into the pavement outside the city’s central market.

Due to the indiscriminate nature of cluster bomb munitions, more than 100 countries have banned their use under an international treaty."

"Multi-launch rockets known as Grads, which fire volleys of unguided projectiles, have also been used regularly against Kharkiv’s residents.

Grad is the Russian word for hail. And the hail falls every night."

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"the morgue isn’t counting. “We don’t keep statistics,” he said. “We don’t have the spare hands. We will count when peace comes.”

... Whatever the official toll, everyone agreed there are countless more bodies yet to be retrieved."

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"they are barely able to work [collecting bodies] at all — there isn’t enough of a break in the shelling.

...at the regional administration office, which was damaged in a huge blast March 1, the bodies of all the victims had yet to be retrieved."

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"“There are still bodies under there,” said Oleh Supereka, a territorial defense volunteer who was in the building at the time of the explosion, pointing to a pile of rubble at the end of a hallway."

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"Oksana Levchenko, 38, waited for 5½ hours on Wednesday, starting at 6 a.m., but there were only diapers left when she got to the front. She’d been hoping for food."

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"The water supply was cut after a strike the night before...

“We don’t want another Grozny here,” he said, referring to Putin’s 1999 near-total destruction of the Chechen capital. “But we don’t want to live in Russia.”"

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photo: A historical building in Kharkiv bombed by Russians on March 15. (Wojciech Grzedzinski for The Washington Post)

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