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(NewsNation) — Ukrainian pistillate Marusia Yelizova returned to her war-torn hometown of Kharkiv, Ukraine, contempt it being nether Russian attacks aft fleeing to Czechia 3 years earlier.
NewsNation's Connell McShane met Yelizova and her household successful Poland aft they near Kharkiv amid the warfare successful 2022 en way to neighboring Czechia.
She returned contempt the dangers aft her parent mislaid her occupation and Yelizova failed to find 1 portion taking refuge connected overseas soil.
"I gave up astatine that time. I stopped to combat for my life," Yelizova said of her clip successful Czechia. Now, she says, "we unrecorded connected a bomb. I work, I spell outside, I don't cognize erstwhile oregon wherever the weaponry volition fall, truthful it's similar beingness connected a bomb."
Her erstwhile location was sold anterior to moving to Czechia, and now, Yelizova lives successful a level acknowledgment to assistance from Ukraine.
"It's truly scary due to the fact that determination are pieces of the bombs that alert everywhere," she said.
Yekuzova "cannot feel" bid arsenic an imminent anticipation for the region, but she inactive desires it.
"When we tried to beryllium refugees, we were reasoning we would ne'er travel backmost to Ukraine if [Kharkiv] is portion of Russia," she said.
"At the moment, we consciousness that we privation peace. We privation to beryllium Ukraine, of course, but we privation peace."
