Descending from a train from Poland at a Kyiv station clutching a single suitcase, teenager Maria Pshenychna embraced her father, Yuriy, with tears running down her face.
Two months ago the 16-year-old had fled Gostomel, one of the Kyiv suburbs that saw intense fighting at the start of Russia’s attack launched on Feb. 24.
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