When 83-year-old Lydia Boyko left her dwelling in Kramatorsk on a sunny day final week — mendacity on a skinny mattress behind a van as air raid sirens wailed — she had no thought if she would ever see it once more. Or the place she was going. She gave a slight cry of ache as two volunteers lifted her clumsily into the van, and apprehensive that her housedress was rising up. She tried tugging it down till somebody handed her a sheet to cowl up with. Her crutches and the bag she’d ready for the journey have been additionally…
