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Nils Adler

‘More freedom’: Why a Cameroonian man returned to Ukraine

Nelly Nelson had lived in Ukraine for three years when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the country [Nils Adler/Al Jazeera]

Lviv, Ukraine – Nelly Nelson, a Cameroonian entrepreneur and English teacher, had not wanted to leave his adopted hometown of Lviv in western Ukraine when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the country in February last year.

“I was not that scared,” the 29-year-old recalls. “Where I am from, there is an expression: don’t run from what you don’t know.”

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