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“There was a summer kitchen, a single bedroom, and a little hallway… and behind the wall lived the pigs and goats,” said Maryna Baliasnykova, an internally displaced Ukrainian. She described the accommodation her family was given by local authorities in western Ukraine after evacuation. Baliasnykova, her husband, and their two children, aged six and three, fled Bakhmut, an eastern Ukrainian city devastated by fighting and now occupied by Russian troops, in May 2022. Since then, they have changed three temporary homes across Ukraine due to poor living conditions and other issues, eventually set…

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