“Our government said everything was under control. Then my mother’s friend said: run’

Of course they heard the warnings from the West and the war rhetoric of the Kremlin. But that they would have to flee an all-out war, with missiles and tanks, just like in the past? These Ukrainians had not expected that. “I could say very patriotically that our boys are going to stop the Russians, but that’s just not realistic.”

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