‘Now I’m Just Dust’: She Was An English Teacher In Ukraine. Then The Rockets Hit.

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‘Now I’m Just Dust’: She Was An English Teacher In Ukraine. Then The Rockets Hit.

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KORCZOWA, Poland — Before the Russian invasion, Lilith Huseimaliieva was an English teacher from Bila Tserkva, a city roughly 50 miles from the bustling capital city of Kyiv, Ukraine. Now, she and her daughter are in a place they don’t recognize; her husband is back in Ukraine; and she doesn’t know where she will end up next. 

“In my hometown, I was a respected person. Now I’m just dust,” Huseimaliieva told The Daily Wire in an in-person interview, on a bus filled with refugees traveling to the Polish border from Lviv. “This is how war changes your life.”

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