A 91-year-old Ukrainian woman who fled Russians twice in her lifetime cursed 'Putin's bastards' for ruining her final years

Fri, 09/08/2023 - 21:41

A crowd of Ukrainian refuges gather under a bridge. — A Ukrainian serviceman helps evacuees gathered under a destroyed bridge, as they flee the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on March 7, 2022.
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An elderly Ukrainian woman recounted her experiences fleeing Russian invaders twice before she died.
Kateryna Lihusha told The Wall Street Journal that she first fled home as a baby in 1932.
Lihusha castigated Vladimir Putin and his "bastards" in an open letter before she died this year.

A Ukrainian nonagenarian who died earlier this year was forced to flee Russian invaders twice throughout her life — first when she was a baby and then again in the final year of her life.