A year after the Russian invasion that tore her family apart, Liliia Kozlovska wished she could reunite with her husband in a flat in Nottingham, away from the deadly war in her motherland. "Us, Ukrainians, all we feel is pain inside", she told Nottinghamshire Live's Olimpia Zagnat, in a special interview a year after the major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, on February 24.
In Zhytomyr, a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine, Mrs Kozlovska woke up at around 6am to get her 12-year-old to school. But her daily routine was cut short when her husband checked his phone, and read the news that everyone was dreading to hear.
Speaking of her disbelief at the time, the 44-year-old mum said: "I was not 100, but 1000 per cent sure it will never happen.
