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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska

Six months into the war, Ukrainian refugee agonises about returning

Ukrainian refugee Tatiana Afanasieva stands near her children Eva, 10 and Nikolay, 8, at the playground near their house in Poznan, Poland August 18, 2022. REUTERS/Kuba Stezycki

Tatiana Afanasieva dreams of returning to Ukraine from her life of exile in Poland, but even though her neighbours back home in Kryvyi Rih tell her Russian shelling there has stopped, she is too afraid.

"People tell me that it looks normal, life goes on, people go to work," Afanasieva, 34, told Reuters from her room in a flat she shares with a Polish woman who wanted to help refugees in Poznan, western Poland.

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