.mashagessen writes about a couple who fled Russia for Ukraine. They share a one-bedroom apartment in Kharkiv, where they sleep in a tiny entryway, away from the windows.
, Alex was still working as a head cook at a bar in central Moscow. He made Mexican-style food to go with craft beer. He loved to cook and to see the pleasure that his food brought people. But now he hated it. Every time he walked out into the hall and saw people laughing and drinking overpriced beer, he felt enraged. He wanted to shout, “There is a war going on! People are getting killed!” When he returned to the kitchen, he would punch the refrigerator.
Alex and Halyna met online during the pandemic. Alex is heavy. He speaks softly but with a sense of gravity. Halyna is skinny and tall and wears a long blond braid. She speaks quickly, in a high pitch. Both are struck by their good luck at having found each other. Ukrainians could leave Russia via a western border and enter Ukraine through Poland. This was not an option for Russian citizens. Alex urged Halyna and Nataliya to go ahead while he figured out what to do. Alex lost this battle. Instead, all three of them took the cheapest possible train to Belgorod, a Russian city twenty miles to the border with Ukraine. Halyna carried their cat, Lucy, in a backpack.
They passed two Russian checkpoints before reaching a Ukrainian one. They handed over their documents through the window. Seeing a Russian passport among them, the soldier commanded the family to get out of the car and to line up facing it. The truck driver was forced to the ground. The soldiers bound their hands behind their backs with Scotch tape, and placed black plastic bags over their heads. The bags had been used to store potatoes. They were dusty and smelled of soil.
personally. They got a response from his administration, virtually the same response they had received from every office: as long as the war continues, there is no legal procedure for allowing Russian citizens to gain protection in Ukraine. Alex has no argument with this. But it means that he can’t safely leave the apartment, for fear of being detained. Halyna has been harassed a couple of times over the Russian residency stamp in her passport.
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