Go west upheaval of war drives integration of people from eastern and western Ukraine
News Source : The Irish Times
News Summary
- Some five million Ukrainians fled to Lviv after Russia’s all-out invasion in February 2022.
- While the vast majority moved on to European Union states, at least 150,000 have settled here.
- Oksana Dubyk and her elderly father left besieged Mariupol on foot a month into the full-scale war.
- Hanna Kutepova fled her largely Soviet-built industrial hometown in Luhansk region for a Unesco-listed city founded in the 13th century.
Lviv in western Ukraine is 1,000km from the front line, but the war reverberates through a historic city that endures Russian air strikes, buries fallen soldiers nearly every day and offers a new sta [+4582 chars]
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