In a deliberate and widespread campaign, Russian forces systematically targeted influential Ukrainians to neutralise resistance through detention, torture and executions.
As they listened to the fury of artillery above, her children kept asking her to repeat the part when the wicked witch Gingema sends a hurricane to the city.
She managed to get a ride to her sister's house in Donetsk, a city in eastern Ukraine that has been under de facto Russian control since 2014. They were fingerprinted, photographed and questioned for three hours. Lidiia was allowed through. Somehow, they hadn't noticed she was a journalist.'Where to run?'
Lidiia scrambled to gather the paperwork she needed to leave: a certificate that she'd cleared filtration, new identity papers for her children.Lidiia booked tickets for her and her children on a bus that would take them on a three-day journey through Russia, across Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and finally to Kyiv.
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