#Russian aggression
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- Life in Ukraine
Serhii was just 17 when he convinced his parents to let him gather some of his belongings and flee occupied Donetsk. His family, however, remained. Born and raised in the eastern Ukrainian city, he was only a child when the Russians occupied his hometown. As he got older, questions arose: “I started asking myself: why was it so good then, and not now?”
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