“My husband died a month before my fourth child was born”

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Interview with Irina Shmatko from the Ukrainian city of Poltava, whose mother died defending Mariupol and whose husband was killed in November 2023, a month before her youngest daughter was born. She is now alone with four children. Levan Rostomashvili, a resident of Sydney, accidentally found out about Irina and organized a fundraiser for her family.


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