‘We’re going to stay here.’ Women in a small border town refuse to leave Ukraine, saying, “We will fight.”
Ukraine’s Solotvyno Lilya Solodovnik observes her pigtailed 6-year-old, Lena, rocking on a blue toy pony, in the first moments of peace since escaping her house. Russian forces have pounded their hometown of Kharkiv, and her friends and family are now hiding in bomb shelters. Solodovnik, along with scores of other women and children from Ukraine’s … Read more