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Ladies That Stayed

LADIES THAT STAYED, group of
Ukrainian babushkas that hide in a basement, during Russia invasion. Nazi occupation survivors, then Stalin and now Putin. 'It's very scary, but I won't leave my land,' defiantly states Liudmyla Kirichenko, 75. 'Everything was very scary. Constant explosions, gun fire,' said Tetiana Serhiivna Petrovska, 72. 'I was born in that house and in this house I will die,' says Galyna Ivanivna, 75. 'I have daughters who live on the other side of Kyiv. They have their own families, their own lives. I don't disturb anyone, I take care of myself,' declares Oleksandra 93.

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