By Joanna Plucinska and Kuba Stezycki WARSAW (Reuters) - Maria Verbyana, 19, moved to Warsaw to escape Lviv, Ukraine, a month ago amid the threat of R.
WARSAW (Reuters) - Maria Verbyana, 19, moved to Warsaw to escape Lviv, Ukraine, a month ago amid the threat of Russian bombings. But, as Orthodox Easter approaches on Sunday, she could not imagine being away from her priest and family.
Nina spent her 16th birthday in a shelter for children in Lviv, Ukraine, last week, far from her family and friends in the east of the country, after she fled advancing Russian forces early in the war.
One of 23 children evacuated from another childcare center in Lysychansk, a town more than 1,000km away near the eastern front lines, Nina says she misses her friends there and does not know when she would see them again.
“They always came to visit. We’ve been through so many things together,” said Nina, who ran away from home in February last year when her mother
By Anna Magdalena Lubowicka KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) - When a missile hit one of the residential buildings in the besieged city of Mariupol, Ukraine, .