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00:00In recent weeks, rockets have increasingly fallen on the town of Bohodkiv.
00:05One woman working in her garden survived because she ran to check the damage from a previous
00:10rocket and escaped one that fell near her house.
00:13I was saved by literally two seconds.
00:19If I had reached the green fence, I would have been torn apart.
00:22There was such a crazy explosion, I broke my knee and got bruises.
00:25I cannot lift my arm, it hurts.
00:28I came to as I was lying there, my head was buzzing, my ears were crackling.
00:34Located near the Ukrainian-Russian border on a highway connecting Kharkiv and Sumy,
00:39Bohodkiv has recently become a focal point in the war.
00:43This year, Russian attacks have damaged 83 facilities in the community, four times more
00:48than in 2022.
00:51The town is under fire from cluster munitions, drones and missiles recently sourced from
00:56North Korea despite sanctions.
00:59Before the increasingly frequent shelling, Bohodkiv had been a respite from people fleeing
01:04more violent parts of the country and hosts about 17,000 internally displaced persons.
01:11But recently, the number of customers at this market has decreased.
01:15Some people are moving away, and some do not have the income to buy much.
01:21Most people buy two carrots, two onions, two peppers.
01:25As Ukraine continues its offensive into Russia's Kursk region, locals expect that aerial threats
01:31will continue.
01:35We are less than 20 kilometers from the border, so it takes 10 to 20 seconds for missiles
01:39to reach us.
01:40The last attacks were with cluster munitions.
01:42Critical infrastructure facilities, houses, businesses and apartments have been damaged.
01:49The town is working to repair the damage to buildings.
01:52The government has recently restored 10 apartments and about 30 private houses.