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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Hannah McKay

Play and therapy pool ease trauma for Ukrainian refugee girl in Poland

Reuters

Alevtina is all smiles as she cuddles her mother, Alexandra Zhuravel, in their bedroom at Poland’s Benedictine Sisters Monastery, a world away from Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine.

Her joy in that moment masks the fear she shows each time the tranquillity around the 17th century monastery where she, her sister and her mother have found refuge is broken by a loud noise from a car or an aircraft overhead.

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