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Only just over half of the villagers were still there, 272 out of 503. It is unclear how many of them accepted Russian aid. Vera Bershnaya, 79, admits to having received the one-time payment of 10,000 rubles and food from the Russians. "Even though two of my sons-in-law are with the Ukrainian army, I don’t think it’s so bad," she says. Up until the beginning of the war, she says, she was only receiving a pension of what amounts to 40 euros per month from the Ukrainian state, and then nothing after that. "We just wanted to survive. And our mayor left us in the lurch."

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