Ukraine: returning like a bird to its empty nest
By
Halyna Bilak
·
June 20, 2024
“We lived in the basement for more than a month, and only in the morning, when the shelling subsided a bit, we would run to the apartment to take a shower or get some of our things,” says Kateryna, 37. “We slept on pallets, along with all the neighbors. There were 12 of us living in a [160 square foot] basement. But we did not want to leave until the last moment. We fled Donetsk in 2014. We started life from scratch here, and it was very scary to lose everything again.”
