Daryna Mayer is an NBC News producer and reporter based in Kyiv, Ukraine.
KYIV, Ukraine — With shells raining down and Russian forces advancing, 98-year-old Lidia Stepanivna Lumikovska made the decision to leave her home in the village of Ocheretyne in eastern Ukraine and walk around 6 miles to safety. Recalling her journey in a video released by Ukraine’s National Police and the country’s interior ministry Monday, the woman said she survived World War II “and I am going through this war.
After she was taken to an evacuation shelter, he said, she was reunited with her granddaughter who had evacuated from Ocheretyne several weeks earlier, amid fierce fighting in the region over recent weeks. Russia claimed the village of Semenivka, less than 5 miles south of Ocheretyne, on Monday, a day after Ukrainian Commander in Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said his troops had to retreat from three villages in the area. His rare admission came just over a week after the U.S.
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