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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Stephen McGrath

'We couldn't let go': War tears young Ukrainian family apart

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

University student Vlada Yushchenko was still in her teens and nearly three months pregnant when she hugged her husband at the border, turned away and walked into Moldova.

Now she's in Romania, one of the millions of Ukrainians forced to flee Russia's invasion. Her baby, Daniel, was born there eight months ago and still hasn't met his father Yaroslav, who is 21 and, like most men of fighting age, prohibited from leaving Ukraine.

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