As war unfolds in her homeland, Solomiya Rozhko adjusts to a ‘painful’ new reality in Brisbane

Solomiya Rozhko says she is finding it challenging to get used to her ‘new reality’ in Brisbane after leaving Ukraine. Photograph: Dan Peled/The Guardian

Every day, Solomiya Rozhko wakes up inside an apartment in Brisbane and asks herself: “Is it over?”

“You just want it to be over,” Rozhko says of the war in Ukraine. “You want your family and friends and your country to be safe.”