Posted on Mar 22, 2022
2 Ukrainian mothers struggle to stay in touch with their children in front-line cities
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Hundreds of miles from the front lines, in western Ukraine, Dana Lahunovych still feels the daily strain of Ukraine's war against Russia.
She, like many other Ukrainians, has family living or fighting in cities on the front lines of Russia's full-scale assault on Ukraine.
In Lahunovych's case, her 38-year-old daughter and son-in-law are serving in the Ukrainian military in some of the hardest-hit regions of the conflict, including the Donbas region in the east and the port city of Mariupol.
Hundreds of miles from the front lines, in western Ukraine, Dana Lahunovych still feels the daily strain of Ukraine's war against Russia.
She, like many other Ukrainians, has family living or fighting in cities on the front lines of Russia's full-scale assault on Ukraine.
In Lahunovych's case, her 38-year-old daughter and son-in-law are serving in the Ukrainian military in some of the hardest-hit regions of the conflict, including the Donbas region in the east and the port city of Mariupol.
2 Ukrainian mothers struggle to stay in touch with their children in front-line cities
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..."In Lahunovych's case, her 38-year-old daughter and son-in-law are serving in the Ukrainian military in some of the hardest-hit regions of the conflict, including the Donbas region in the east and the port city of Mariupol.
"My daughter is at the front. She doesn't say where they are exactly, so I cannot say where. They are located in places that they don't talk about where they are," Lahunovych says.
She tries to write to her daughter at least once a week on a messaging app to keep in touch and to make sure she's OK.
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"I'm crying and saying, like, 'Where are you? How are you?' She doesn't answer. And then after a while, she says, 'Mom, I'm OK,' " Lahunovych says. "They don't talk to me much. They don't tell me what's going on because they know how hard it is for me to live through this."...
..."In Lahunovych's case, her 38-year-old daughter and son-in-law are serving in the Ukrainian military in some of the hardest-hit regions of the conflict, including the Donbas region in the east and the port city of Mariupol.
"My daughter is at the front. She doesn't say where they are exactly, so I cannot say where. They are located in places that they don't talk about where they are," Lahunovych says.
She tries to write to her daughter at least once a week on a messaging app to keep in touch and to make sure she's OK.
Ukrainian women are volunteering to fight — and history shows they always have
"I'm crying and saying, like, 'Where are you? How are you?' She doesn't answer. And then after a while, she says, 'Mom, I'm OK,' " Lahunovych says. "They don't talk to me much. They don't tell me what's going on because they know how hard it is for me to live through this."...
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