Documentary director and Fipresci critic Elena Rubashevska details her harrowing escape from Kyiv to Poland and her fears for those she left behind: 'The scenes from my journey could come from a disaster movie.'
In 2014, after graduating from university in Kyiv, I was preparing to return home to my native city of Donetsk, to a nice apartment and the offer of a good job at a local TV channel. Shortly before I was set to leave, I received a horrifying call from my mom: A missile had hit my apartment. It was the start of the Russian invasion of the Donbas region. For months, I’d wake up to the news of civilians being killed, places I knew destroyed, people I knew whose lives were ruined.
Knowing I couldn’t go back, I built a life in Kyiv, got a nice cozy place in the suburb of Bucha, about 12 miles outside the capital, a bucolic spot surrounded by forests. “Bucha is the best city,” locals like to say.
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