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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Luiza Ilie

'We don't know how to go back' - a mother's journey across invaded Ukraine

Iryna Kyrychenko talks on the phone during an interview with Reuters, after fleeing Ukraine 3 days before, in Bucharest, Romania, February 27, 2022. Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea via REUTERS

The day before Russia invaded Ukraine, Iryna Kyrychenko and her husband went to sleep thinking they would take their two young daughters to visit their grandmother the next day.

Instead, they woke up in their house in Kyiv to sounds of missile explosions, hastily packed some clothes, and fled.

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