'I ended up in enemy territory': One Ukrainian woman's journey from Moscow to Carrigaline

A Ukrainian who found her home in Russia, Maryna Kovalenko shares the harrowing details of war, government persecution, and her journey from Moscow to Carrigaline

Maryna Kovalenko moved to Moscow for a higher education and was a second-year graduate student at a Russian university when the war started.

In the early morning of February 24, I was woken by my phone ringing.

“If we don’t answer the phone, don’t worry,” my father told me. “We may not have a connection.”