A Ukrainian woman escapes from occupied territory alone
On the way to evacuate, I lost my family and ended up walking without food or water.
Found by a Ukrainian soldier at the end of a long battle.
Monobank CEO gives house to grandmother
Enlarge photo A 98-year-old woman successfully escaped by walking about 10km from Ocherityn, a front-line village in Ukraine. [AP 연합뉴스]
The British Daily Guardian reported on the 30th (local time) that a 98-year-old Ukrainian woman escaped Russian occupation by walking 6 miles (about 10 km) alone while relying on a stick.
Lydia Stepaniuna Romikowska decided to leave Ozeretyne, a front-line village in eastern Donetsk, Ukraine, with her family as fighting intensified last week following the Russian invasion.
He started with his family, but amid the chaos of the war, he separated from his family, including his son and two daughters-in-law. The young family took the detour, and I took the main road as my escape route. “I woke up to the sound of gunshots everywhere and I was so scared,” the grandmother said in a video interview posted by Donetsk police.
Accordingly, the old woman managed to escape by walking all day without food or water, holding a cane in one hand and a piece of wood in the other to support her body. The evacuation process was difficult. It is said that he fell twice and had to rest, and once he only managed to walk after falling asleep. He said: “One time I lost my balance and fell into the weeds, fell asleep and continued walking after a while. “Then I fell again,” he remembered, “but I got up and thought I should keep walking bit by bit.”
It was only on the night of the second day that the grandmother, who walked alone without anyone’s help, was discovered by Ukrainian soldiers.
The soldiers handed the grandmother over to the ‘White Angels’, a police unit that evacuates citizens from front line areas. The White Angels then took the grandmother to a refugee shelter and contacted her family, said police spokesman Pablo Diatchenko.
Romikowska, who survived the Second World War, said, “This war is different from that time (the Second World War). “The same house was not on fire, but this time everything is on fire,” he said.
The grandmother who managed to escape after going through many hardships also had unexpected luck. Ole Horokovsky, CEO of Monobank, one of Ukraine’s largest banks, announced on his Telegram that he would give a house to Romikowska’s grandmother.
“Monobank will buy a house for Grandma Romikowska, and she will live in it until this abomination (Russia) disappears from our land,” said CEO Horokovsky.
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