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Evening Standard
World
Charline Bou Mansour and Ros Russell

‘These are everyone’s children’ – the moving story of a Ukrainian mother who has rescued nine children

Before the war erupted in Ukraine, Svitlana Kylivnyk was a mother of two, running a firewood business with her husband near the small city of Pohrebyshche.

Life was good. The family kept chickens and ducks. Her elder daughter Alla was studying law in Kyiv and her younger daughter Olena was about to graduate from high school; she was looking forward to her prom.

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