“In July, armed men came to their house and searched it for three hours looking for Ukrainian flags. The next day, Olena fled her hometown.” So began the odyssey of Olena, an internally displaced person from Donetsk who was driven from her home by the conflict in 2014. Like Ukraine’s other 1.7 million IDPs, her life is forever divided into “before” and “after” the war.
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Resident flee with salvaged belongings during renewed fighting in the neighbourhood of Jabunki near the airport in Donetsk on April 13, 2015.
