February 24 will be one year since Vladimir Putin’s Russia declared war on Ukraine. And Anna Kravchenko, who has lived in Montluçon (Allier) since May 2022, hopes that 2023 will mark the end of this conflict and her return to her hometown, Dnipro. “My father and brother are still there, and my mother wanted to stay with them,” said the 23-year-old girl on Saturday 7 January, Christmas day according to the Julian calendar followed by Orthodox Christians.