He is on the front line. She is adjusting to life in Germany. The Ukraine war anniversary marked nearly a year living apart.
TROSSINGEN, Germany — They said goodbye at the Ukrainian-Slovak border, hugging and kissing and telling one another the war would be short. A year later — the conflict still dragging on — the lives of Andrii Mishchenko and Olha Taranova have veered apart to a degree they never planned.
“Today I got my heart. That’s why I can smile,” Olha said on what happened to be her daughter’s 11th birthday, celebrated with pizza at an indoor playground called Kinderspieleland, along with other Ukrainian refugee children and mothers — and no dads. “Well, good morning, Trossingen,” she narrated in one video, musing about why nearby dogs weren’t barking.“Today, brown bins are out — these bins are for food waste garbage,” she said. “Every day you throw out and sort garbage.”“Almost like Ukraine,” the video caption said.
On the day of their separation, Andrii was lying. He felt he had a duty to shield his family as best he could, even from anxiety. So he promised Olha that if she and Sasha sought refuge in the European Union, he would stay in western Ukraine, which was considered the safest place in the country. But within a few days he was back in Kyiv, as Russian forces attempted to encircle the capital.Andrii had told Olha he wouldn’t join the military. He was lying then, too.
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