Kseniia Yershova (20) thought that one day she might like to study music abroad but she never imaged she would be forced to move abroad before she had even finished secondary school.
“I studied at the Special Music School in Odesa, which is a general secondary school with a focus on music. I was actually thinking to study abroad anyway at some point, either for my bachelors or for my masters. I was thinking maybe Germany, or I don’t know, Austria. I was actually learning some German for that. But yeah, that never ended up happening.”
Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine has cast a long shadow over Yershova’s life. In 2014, Yershova and her family had to leave the Crimean Peninsula after Russia’s annexation.
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