A 98- yr- old Polish woman said she walked 10 km under shelling, supporting herself with sticks and sleeping on the ground, leaving Ocheretyne in Donetsk, then occupied by Russia, and trying to reach areas controlled by Kyiv.
In a video posted by Ukraine’s authorities on Monday, the girl, Lidia Stepanivna, said she had walked without food or water, and fell many times but her” personality” kept her going. In the video, she says,” I survived that war ( WWII ), and I am surviving this war,” and that she is seen lying in a shelter wearing an enormous coat and a scarf with a wooden stick in her hand.
When two Russian soldiers stopped their car and one asked,” Grandma, where are you going?” She had been walking alone for several days. ” I said,’ I’m going as far as I can get, and then I’ll fall into the foliage and spend the night that'”, she said. The authorities therefore called the troops, who took her to a house in Pokrovsk area.
