'I was worried that Russians would recognise me as a journalist when I hit a checkpoint.'
A former Ukrainian TV host has made a new life for herself working in a Belfast creche after fleeing the warzone.
When the war began, Kateryna travelled to join her parents in the Russian controlled city of Kherson where she expected to spend a few days before ending up living in her parents basement for two months.Ms Fuglevych told the BBC that they barely slept due to the sound of the bombs and missiles falling around them."But even when we were down there we could hear the bombs, the missiles - we barely slept.
After two months, Kateryna decided to return to Odesa with the help of a friend and said that she had 15 minutes to pack everything and leave her home town."The roads were gone - they had been destroyed - so we had to follow people who knew the way through fields."I was worried that Russians would recognise me as a journalist when I hit a checkpoint.
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