98-year-old Ukrainian Lidia Stepanivna walked ten kilometers from the Russian-occupied Ocheretyn in the Donetsk region with the aim of reaching the territory controlled by Kyiv. In a video posted by Ukrainian police on the X network, she described making the trip without food or drink, resting on the ground, and although she fell several times during the trek, her “nature” helped her keep going. Reuters reported on the video.
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11:47 a.m April 30, 2024
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“I have nothing left. But I left my Ukraine on my own two feet,” says the senior in the video | Source: Repro National Police of Ukraine
“I survived one war (World War II – editor’s note) and I will survive this too,” says the senior woman in the video from the shelter, where the Ukrainian police moved her after the woman was attacked by Ukrainian soldiers in the evening, Reuters wrote.
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Now Stepanivna is safe in hiding. In the video, she is sitting on a bed wrapped in a large fur coat and a scarf, a soldier offers her something to eat.
“I have nothing left. But I left my Ukraine on my own two feet,” she confides in the video, where she still holds a wooden stick and stick in her hand, which she used to lean on during the journey.
“I fell several times on the way. Then I lay down for a while and rested. But then I got up and said to myself that I have to go on,” describes the senior.
World War II, according to Stepanivna, was nothing compared to today’s war. “Houses are burning and trees are being uprooted,” he says. “It’s terrible what’s happening there,” he adds.
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