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Mansur Mirovalev

How Russia’s war has harmed Ukraine’s ethnic Greek minority

An Orthodox Christian priest talks to train passengers in Mariupol, Ukraine, in 2019 [Mansur Mirovalev/Al Jazeera]

Kyiv, Ukraine – Natalia Harakoz died in early May, in the basement of her apartment building in the besieged southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol.

The 86-year-old writer had relocated to the subterranean shelter after Russian shelling destroyed her apartment and large library, where the shelves included books she had written in her native Greek, describing the life of Ukraine’s Greek diaspora.

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