Alyona with her children in their family’s new apartment in the outskirts of Moscow. Alyona and her family survived one hundred of days of hell during Russia’s siege of Mariupo. — AFP
ALYONA and her family survived one hundred days of hell during Russia’s siege of Mariupol, which ended in May last year when the last Ukrainian troops in the city surrendered.
Today, she, her husband and their two children have begun to rebuild their lives in Russia but are still haunted by the horrors of the battle for the Ukrainian port city.
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