Masha Shumatskaya fled Donetsk, Ukraine, in June 2014. (Uriel Heilman)
(JTA) — Masha Shumatskaya never imagined she would be a war refugee, even after that first night last spring when she dragged the mattress off her bed and into her windowless hallway to protect herself from flying glass in the event a bomb shattered her windows.
But after weeks of fighting between Russian-backed separatists and the Ukrainian military in her native Donetsk, Shumatskaya, 23, had had enough.
“I wasn’t used to bombing,” Shumatskaya said. “I wasn’t used to seeing armed people wearing masks in the city center. I wasn’t used to hearing military …read more
Source: JTA
