Penniless and with just the clothes she was wearing, Elena Donets escaped “hell” in Mariupol when her apartment block was destroyed by Russian shelling.
Fleeing the besieged southern city that has been hit by the heaviest fighting since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last month, the 52-year-old telecoms worker joined millions of other Ukrainians as part of one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing movements of internally displaced people this century.
“The last thing I remember are windows and iron doors blowing up. Some people were crushed and could not get out,” Donets said, showing a video of her burning home.
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