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Yuliia Kanivska is a mother of one from Irpin, a commuter city that lies 20km north of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv. Much of Irpin was destroyed during a month-long occupation in 2022, before it was recaptured by Ukrainian forces. “I was very scared; we didn’t think that Russia could invade us,” Yuliia told Euronews’ Shona Murray. Yuliia also worries pro-Russian propaganda could skew the reality of Ukraine’s suffering and undermine Western support for the war-torn nation. “Because a lot of my relatives live in Russia, my husband’s aunt and her children live in Russia. And now they don’t speak, they…

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