Civilians try to pick up daily life in Ukraine two years after full scale Russian invasion

A year and a half after its liberation from Russian forces, residents are slowly returning to  Kamianka, a village in the  Kharkiv region of Ukraine.

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00:00A year and a half after its liberation from Russia, residents are slowly returning to

00:06Kamyanka, a village in the Kharkiv region in Ukraine.

00:12More than a thousand people lived in this village near Izyum before it fell under occupation

00:16in 2022.

00:19The head of the village council, Yevheny Panasenko, says that despite having no electricity,

00:2539 families have returned after most of them fled due to the war.

00:45Oleksandr Hordienko and his wife, Zuza, returned to Kamyanka in February last year.

00:52It took them one year and a half to rebuild their house.

01:07Panasenko says that the biggest obstacle is the minefield, which needs to be cleared by

01:12combat engineers.

01:16Once the mines under the power lines are removed, engineers can repair the infrastructure and

01:20the village will have power for the first time in two years.

01:24Meanwhile, in Ukraine's southeast, a local church community celebrates its first feast

01:30after the reconstruction of the St. Peter and St. Paul's Church in Zuparije.

01:38A Russian missile strike damaged the building in August last year.

01:43The parishioners are now raising funds to repair the bell tower, which was damaged by

01:47the blast.