Alexander Syritsa: Surviving Kharkiv bombings and the complicated way back home to Melbourne

Aleksander from Melbourne in front of bombed stadium in Kharkiv

Source: Supplied by Aleksander Syritsa

Melbourne-based Alexander Syritsa was in Kharkiv when Russia started the war in Ukraine. He told SBS Russian about the first weeks of the war and about his long and complicated way back home to Australia.


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