Home > 'Lots of women and kids are not as lucky as I am to escape the bombing'

News
'Lots of women and kids are not as lucky as I am to escape the bombing'

Description

Polina Boichuk is a resident of the Kyiv region and she joins France 24 to share her story. When the invasion began, she thought she'd be "much safer" in a city in the Kyiv region called Irpin. But when the bombings began, her city was targeted as well and she was forced to take cover in the basement for an entire week. "I heard bombings all the time. The house near ours was bombed and I really thought that I would die. I really thought that I would not survive that." Still under heavy fire, she was forced to flee. Against all odds, she managed to escape "through the only way out because all the bridges around that city were bombed." And the most harrowing aspect of what she endured was that "this is not unique. All the people around Ukraine face the same thing," explains Ms. Boichuk. "[But] unfortunately, lots of women and kids are just not as lucky as I am to escape the bombing."

Added on the 11/03/2022 15:16:27 - Copyright : France 24 EN

To customise your video :

Generic export code

More videos on the subject

July 4 parade gunman wore women's clothing to aid escape: police

Robert "Bobby" Crimo III, who is suspected of killing six people and injuring dozens in a shooting at a Fourth of July parade in a suburb of Chicago, wore women's clothing to facilitate his escape, a police spokesman says in Highland Park, Illinois. SOUNDBITE

05/07/2022 - AFPTV - First images
Katie Price missing kids during coronavirus pandemic

Katie Price hasn't seen her younger four children, Junior, 14, Princess, 12, Jett, six, and Bunny, five, for the past month as they've been living with their fathers due to her oldest son Harvey, 17, being highly susceptible to COVID-19.

14/04/2020 - BANG Showbiz
Katie Price: It's hard to spend Christmas without kids

Katie Price finds it "hard" to spend Christmas Day (25.12.19) without her children, as they spent the day with their respective fathers instead.

27/12/2019 - BANG Showbiz
Noel Gallagher jokes kids are 'lucky' to have him as a dad at London Palladium gig

Noel Gallagher joked that his three children, sons Donovan and Sonny and daughter Anais, are "lucky bastards" to have him as a dad as he dedicated his song 'AKA... What A Life!' to them at his concert at the London Palladium on Thursday night (05.09.19).

10/05/2019 - BANG Showbiz
Emma Willis teaches kids to feel beautiful

Emma Willis teaches her children to feel "beautiful" in their own skin, and never talks about her own body hang ups in front of them.

07/05/2019 - BANG Showbiz
Lily Allen published memoir so kids wouldn't 'blame themselves'

Lily Allen has admitted she released her tell-air memoir partly so that her children wouldn't be as affected by their mother's actions when they were "really, really small".

24/09/2018 - BANG Showbiz