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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rachel Sharp

Stay and be killed or leave and be killed? One family’s impossible decision to escape the besieged city of Chernihiv

Yulia Zhdanova

For the first hour of the journey out of Chernihiv, Yulia Zhdanova didn’t cry.

She could hear her mother praying out loud as they drove with her husband and two sons all piled into the old family car (their new car having been destroyed two days earlier by bombs that killed at least 47 of their neighbours).

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