Before the Russian Federation began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Oksana Lokotosh had a satisfactory life in a two-storey house in Donbas with one of her daughters and her six grandchildren. The women grew fruits and vegetables and raised hens and pigs in a spacious garden.

The family sold whatever they did not consume themselves. When the Army of the Russian Federation chose their home as a target, their lives were turned upside down.

“Fortunately, I was in the hospital at the time and my daughter and her children were shopping. When they returned home, the house had been bombed,” says the 64-year-old Lokotosh.

“We took just the most essential things and left,” she recalls. Their travels brought them to Prague, then to a collection camp in South Bohemia, and ultimately to a residential hotel in the Karlovy Vary Region in the town of Luby, which is run by the Khamoro Chodov nonprofit organization.

Link: https://romea.cz/en/czech-republic/if-the-food-and-the-fuel-runs-out-winter-could-see-another-wave-of-romani-refugees-from-ukraine

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