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Jennifer Rankin in Brussels

‘It’s not going to be some miraculous recovery’: film charts healing of Ukrainian children rescued from Russia

Sasha Mezehevoy in a pink rubber ring holding on to a dog with a green ball in its mouth in the sea
Sasha Mezehevoy during her stay at an Estonian retreat, documented in the film After the Rain. Photograph: Denis Sinyakov

Sasha Mezhevoy was five years old when she, her older brother and sister were sent to an orphanage in Moscow. They were told they were going to be adopted by a Russian family. But they were not orphans. They were Ukrainian children who had been forcibly removed from their father.

Sasha grew up in Mariupol, the port city that endured more than 80 days of bombardment in one of the bloodiest and most destructive chapters of the early months of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

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