Ordeal no 12-year-old should have to ever endure. she wasn t safe like she was now in kyiv, but in a hospital run by russian backed acseparatists. when the russians first invaded, her dad was still alive. her mom died just after she was born and when russian bombs started to fall, sthey sheltere in a neighbors basement. but they hit the house where we were staying, she says. we were buried in the cellar. then the rescuers took us out of the wreckage. her dad did not emerge. now an orphan, she started to walk to try to find safety amidst chaos and then another explosion from a mine. my friend saw something on the ground, she says, and she hit it accidentally with her boot. the military came after the explosions and took us to a hospital because we were bleeding, but in some ways, her