DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine — It took nearly five months but Elena Koshikova finally convinced her ailing husband, Petr, to flee as fighting between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed rebels intensified.
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“I’m very worried — he is all that I have now,” Koshikova said of her husband, who has suffered a wheezing cough since the couple took shelter from near-constant artillery fire in the musty basement of Debaltseve’s railway station along with scores of others.
“I told him, ‘This could be our last chance,'” she said, stroking the back of her husband’s neck as the couple waited …read more
Source: Mashable
