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The Japan News/Yomiuri
The Japan News/Yomiuri
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Shin Watanabe / Yomiuri Shimbun Correspondent

Ukrainian widower flees with twins after losing wife in Russian shelling

(Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

VERBKA, Ukraine -- A Ukrainian man has been unable to tell his twin daughters, who turn 3 on June 18, about their mother's death in a Russian bombardment last month.

"It's just thunder," Dmitriy Mosur remembers telling the frightened twins when they were living in the city of Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine. "It means it's going to rain soon."

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