“A bullet flew in right here,” explains Nadyezhda Semyonovna, 65, to her local pastor, Yura, in the dining room of her home near Avdiivka, eastern Ukraine.
“I was wearing pants like this and it went through here,” she says, pointing to the front of her thigh where it sliced through the cloth. “But I wasn’t wounded. Bullets were flying; the dog was scared, but I wouldn’t let her out of my arms.”
Despite such near misses, Semyonovna, along with many other elderly people, continues to live a short distance away from the front line of a conflict, now entering its …read more
Source: IRIN
