‘It wasn’t a home.’ Some Ukrainians leave refuge abroad to head back.
Olga Rostovska sits at a tiny kitchen table and shows a picture on her phone of where she wants to be: a partially burned apartment building 400 miles away.
“I cried when I knew Russians damaged my house,” she says, sitting next to her sister, Lyudmila Skidan, whose family she and her children live with in Kyiv. “That’s why I want to move back home so much. I hope that I can fix all this and live there.”
Ms. Rostovska is from Kramatorsk, a city in eastern Ukraine now less than 50 miles from the front lines. As in cities across the Donbas region, Kramatorsk’s citizens have a group chat – where they post news of
