“People in Bakhmut walked for dozens of kilometres, and dogs and cats followed them in columns”

81-year-old Nina Aleksandrovna Zemzyulina, a philologist and Russian language teacher, had to move from Ukrainian Bakhmut to Melbourne to live with her daughter after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

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