After days of fleeing, the Ukrainians Helena and Victoria have arrived in the Ruhr area. In the video interview, they report on their destroyed homeland – and on the fear for the men.
Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine. Most of them are women, because men between the ages of 18 and 60 are not allowed to leave the country. Two of them are Helena and Victoria from the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia. Your city made the headlines during the Ukraine war because a fire broke out at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, presumably following a Russian attack.
