91-year-old siege of Leningrad survivor besieged by war again

She spoke bitterly of the Russian forces and compared them to the “fascists” who besieged Leningrad, now called St Petersburg, for nearly 900 days

A damaged building in Kharkiv, Ukraine (Andrew Marienko/AP)

Alevtina Shernina was a young girl when she survived the brutal siege of Leningrad during the Second World War.

Eight decades later, so frail she can barely talk or move unassisted, she is besieged again.