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This brother and sister can hardly believe it is ok to just stop and play. translation: there was no ping pong during occupation. - children don t even play football in the stadiums. ilona and maksym pavlenka orphans who spent over a year in hiding under russian occupation. their mum died years ago and ailing father had kept them in the house since the russians came to their village in southern ukraine. translation: i wasn t studying. i haven t finished school. i don t have any documents, so i m considered a dummy. i guess i couldn t go anywhere because my dad was worried. he said the russians could rape me or kill me. there have been such cases. when the father eventually died, ilona and maksym were worried that they would be forced to move to russia, given russian passports, and sent to orphanage or adopted. so they decided to flee. ....