Two years ago Julia Volok was shocked to experience an angry reception from fellow Ukrainians as she fled home from Wuhan in China, the epicentre of the soon-to-be global coronavirus pandemic.
The buses carrying the Chinese-language student and her fellow evacuees through Ukraine on their way to quarantine were pelted with projectiles as if they were, she said, “enemies of the people”.
Now that experience has paled into near-insignificance after Russia invaded her homeland, forcing Volok to once again flee - this time with her mother - on a 2,400 km journey across Europe.
