• Kostyantin Denisov, the mayor of Orikhiv, Ukraine, talks on the phone outside of his office. In the town, near the front lines of the fighting, most residents have fled. Those who remain endure constant shelling and the fear of what comes next. | LYNSEY ADDARIO / THE NEW YORK TIMES
    Kostyantin Denisov, the mayor of Orikhiv, Ukraine, talks on the phone outside of his office. In the town, near the front lines of the fighting, most residents have fled. Those who remain endure constant shelling and the fear of what comes next. | LYNSEY ADDARIO / THE NEW YORK TIMES
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ORIKHIV, Ukraine – Squeezed between the Ukrainian and Russian front lines in an increasingly volatile battlefield in southeastern Ukraine, the small town of Orikhiv is constantly under fire, and Tamara Mikheenko, one of the few residents who remain, rarely leaves her basement.

“All the time in the basements, at night, under fire,” Mikheenko, 70, said as yet another explosion thumped outside. “It’s very scary, like a lightning bolt, everything is falling apart, the house is falling apart.”

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