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Weekly column from Poland: War resets life

20-05-2022

Christian Life

Sashko Nezamutdinov, CNE.news

Weekly column from Poland: War resets life

Ukrainian mother and daughter at a Polish train station. Photo AFP, Wjtek Radwanski

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I was waiting at a tram stop after a long day of work at the church's office. Next to me stood a young woman with her daughter, who was about six years old. They spoke Ukrainian with a mixture of Russian. That was nothing extraordinary; we hear Ukrainian and Russian everywhere in Poland now.

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