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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Isobel Frodsham

Grandmother who fled Ukraine war on crutches now teaching refugees Romanian

PA Wire

A grandmother has described escaping her home in Ukraine to Romania on crutches after the war with Russia broke out.

Using a pseudonym, Milena Ivakova, 61, said she fled her home in Odesa, a port city in southern Ukraine, while recovering from hip replacement surgery with her 40-year-old daughter and her three granddaughters aged 10, 17, 20 and 22.

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