Lviv in western Ukraine is 1,000km from the front line, but the war reverberates through a historic city that endures Russian air strikes, buries fallen soldiers nearly every day and offers a new start to easterners driven from their homes by fighting and occupation.
Some five million Ukrainians fled to Lviv after Russia’s all-out invasion in February 2022 and, while the vast majority moved on to European Union states, at least 150,000 have settled here – some with the intention of staying forever, and others in the hope of going home if Ukraine can reclaim swathes of the east on the battlefield or through diplomacy.
Oksana Dubyk and her elderly father left besieged Mariupol on foot a month into the full-scale war, as Russian forces pummelled the industrial port in Donetsk regio
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