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Keiran Fleming

Ukrainian living in Glasgow tells of moment she returned home and witnessed mass blackouts

A Glasgow University Postdoctoral Research Associate from Ukraine has spoken of the moment she returned to her home city and what she witnessed.

The last year for Anastasia Klimash has been one of unimaginable worry and disorder after Russian forces invaded her homeland in February further after the initial occupation in 2014. The 33-year-old is constantly thinking of her parents in Dnipro and her friends across Ukraine.

In September she decided to make the trip home for the first time since the full-scale invasion, to visit her loved ones but she wasn't entirely sure what she would be met with.

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