“Unlike other people, I cannot even close my front door that keeps opening during heavy shelling, so I attached a rope to it and pull on it to close the door when it opens during fighting.” via WMC WomenUndrSiege
Interviewing Babushka Lidia.
Ala, a 73-year old blind woman living in Chasiv Yar, a city close to Kramatorsk where a deadly missile strike attackat least 50 people, told me in early February that she was now the only woman left in her family after her husband died of a heart attack, and her only son Oleg disappeared after he joined a paramilitary group in 2014.
When I interviewed her in her home, she asked me to sit next to her so that she could touch my arm to know where I sit. “Do not forget to write in your story that we will never give up on Ukraine,” she said with a smile. When I promised Ala that I would return to Ukraine again to interview her, there was no way we could’ve known that our meeting would likely never happen.
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