Warsaw –
War, interrogations and a journey lasting days are not enough to stop Anna visiting her parents and beloved little brother in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine.
She left her family behind in the months after Russia’s invasion of her homeland and, like several million other Ukrainians, has been living in Europe since.
The 25-year-old has twice made a massively circuitous journey to see her family in the Russian-occupied Lugansk region — traveling from Poland to Belarus, flying to Moscow, continuing south by night train and then driving by road into eastern Ukraine.