In Bharson, a local resident kissed the outer wall of her house after returning for the first time in months. The fleeting visit was made possible thanks to the temporary humanitarian cease-fire signed in neighboring Olsheki, which provided a rare and fragile pause in the daily barrage of Russian artillery and drone attacks that terrorized the southern city. "I haven't been home in five years. Hundreds of times I imagined what it would be like - to return... " she wrote on Facebook.

In Bharson, a local resident kissed the outer wall of her house after returning for the first time in months. The fleeting visit was made possible thanks to the temporary humanitarian cease-fire signed in neighboring Olsheki, which provided a rare and fragile pause in the daily barrage of Russian artillery and drone attacks that terrorized the southern city. "I haven't been home in five years. Hundreds of times I imagined what it would be like - to return... " she wrote on Facebook.