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She knew it from her instincts as a mother: once her child began coughing this dry, deep, bronchial sound — they had to risk their lives to escape. In the first days of the full-scale invasion in 2022, Viktoriia’s town in the Kherson region was occupied by Russians.

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For two and a half months, she and her seven-year-old son Yevhen, whose lungs are affected by cystic fibrosis – a genetic disease that impairs lung capacity due to the accumulation of mucus – stayed in the wet and cold basement of their house.

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