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winetourdriver01

(1,154 posts)
Thu Mar 2, 2023, 07:03 AM Mar 2023

My Year of Living Under Constant Attack in Kyiv

At 5 a.m. on February 24, 2022, my husband woke me up in our Kyiv apartment. He had heard explosions.

In complete darkness, I tried to dress and pack documents, a laptop, and cash into a backpack. Immediately I started experiencing nausea, diarrhea, and pain in the bottom of my stomach. My period began three weeks earlier than it normally would (something that also happened to many Ukrainian women with whom I’ve spoken). And I also had COVID.

Read more:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/my-year-of-living-under-constant-attack-in-kyiv?ref=wrap

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