‘I will never forgive them’
Mar 25, 2022
5 minutes
By Lorenzo Tondo and Mark Rice-Oxley
“My cousin invited me to Russia. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry
Natasha Henova in her basement in a village near Kharkiv, as the onslaught intensified
Alexander Serdyuk has stopped talking to his mother. He is nervously watching war edge ever closer to his home in Lviv. She is 2,400km to the east in Russia, denying that any of it is actually happening.
“I can’t speak with her,” says the 34-year-old Russian who moved to Ukraine 10 years ago. “She doesn’t understand me. She says it’s just Nazis killing each other, and that we are responsible for all this.
“She just doesn’t believe me. We used to speak with each other a lot, but now there’s just no point.”
It’s the same for Natasha Henova. She fled her home
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