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“We Stayed So the Russians Wouldn’t Feel Like They Owned This Place”: How Teacher Olha Melnychenko Survived the Occupation of Kherson, Captivity, and Refused to Be Broken
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2025
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Signal to Resist
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After the Interrogations, I Spent Another Week Sitting in a Basement, Freezing, Starving, and Losing My Mind: The Story of a Preschool Teacher from Kherson
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2023
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Suspilne
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occupation
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'A week in the basement, starving and losing my mind' – a childcare worker from Kherson on her captivity during the occupation
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2022
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Radio Liberty
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Olena Naumova
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