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Christmas in a war zone: A family yearns to be together

December 23, 2022

Lesia Vasylenko, a lawyer and member of the Ukrainian parliament for the opposition Holos party, speaks to DW about the difficult decision to bring her children home to Kyiv for Christmas and her hopes for Ukraine in 2023.

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