An hour before she stood in a rainy Trafalgar Square demonstrating against the Russian war in Ukraine, Angelina Kopachevskaya was on a call to her mother and grandma in a basement in the bombarded city of Kharkiv.
“They are being super-brave,” the 32-year-old said. “But they not sleeping, they are running out of food, my grandma’s medicine is running out. All they are hearing for the last few days is explosions. My grandma – she is 78. She doesn’t deserve for this to be happening to her.”
