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Kyiv's desperate vendors persevere outside obliterated flea market

Vendors with surviving stock are selling from makeshift tables as at least six Kyiv markets have been damaged or destroyed since 2022, AFP tallied.

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Moscow destroyed the popular Pochaina site in the north of the Ukrainian capital in a major attack last month -- the third on the market since Russia invaded in February 2022. Shards of glass and porcelain crunched under Vadym's feet as he walked through the remains of his shop. Prized vinyl records and vintage audio equipment are nothing more than a blank mush, speckled with ashes and broken pieces. "There were four Led Zeppelin autographs and …

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Missiles have reduced to ashes years of collections and memories. Yet, in Potchaina, the merchants are still there, selling what remains. The article On the rubble of Kiev's flea market, the brochanters snatch appeared first on Le Singulier.

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Under Vadym's footsteps, thousands of glitters of glass and porcelain are cracked.He brandishes a piece of rusty bike. "It's an original bike of the Tour de France" 1979, says the 73-year-old collector. In what was his shop, his...

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France24 broke the news in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France on Thursday, August 20, 2026.
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