The Ruetsch house, this couple settled in Durlinsdorf at the foot of the first foothills of the Alsatian Jura, which hosts Ukrainian refugees since the end of February , is “a bit empty” in mid-June, as it has been for a month already. Of Olga (the aunt) and her nephews – Artem, 16, Arsen, 14, and Andrii, 9 – only Olga remains. “The children left on May 14,” says Olga. They found their mother and father – who, like all men with at least three dependent children under the age of 18, were able to leave Ukraine – refugees in Germany, in the vicinity of Freiburg im Breisgau, since mid -may.
“My whole life has been changed”
“Perhaps because of the war, we, like others, did not think very well and made bad decisions”, wonders Olga who experienced the departure of her nephews as a new “uprooting” . “Before the war broke out, we promised each other with my sister, who wanted to stay in Ukraine, that if he arrived…
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