After Russia's invasion of Ukraine Fox News Digital spoke with a dozen Ukrainian refugees and civilians. One year later we have reached out to them to discuss their lives.
Ukrainian refugees and civilians talk with Fox News Digital about how their lives have been in the year following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
In the immediate aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Fox News Digital spoke to a dozen Ukrainian refugees. On the anniversary of the invasion, Fox News Digital reached out to them once again. Of the original twelve, four have died in the war and two were unreachable. with Russian President Vladimir Putin's stated goal of"denazifying" the country.
"The 24th of February started with a phone call from my boyfriend at 5 am with the words 'It started’," Diana Shalashna told Fox News Digital."I was staying near Kyiv with my grandma at that time. I remember thinking that everything will finish after a couple of days, that it can’t be serious. The sounds of explosions weren’t so unknown to me after what happened in 2014, but I was still terrified.
"Three month I was living in basement of the building in the city center in Kharkiv. Most difficult was when my hands could not warm up," Prokopenko continued."So we decided to move to the city living out of basement despite risk. After that I spend days warming on the summer sunlight just to balance my feelings."Despite these difficulties, Ukrainians have been making the best of it both home and abroad. .
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