She is one of nearly 60,000 Ukrainian women who had to start a new life in Austria. With the “Krone” Olga Makarenko (41) speaks about the fear of her daughters, the nostalgia for Odessa and the appalling normality of the war.
A children’s playground near Vienna’s Westbahnhof. The wind blows in Olga Makarenko’s face. “I often go back to the time before 2022, to our old life,” says the 41-year-old, “and every time I think to myself that this war could have been prevented then.” , Valeriia , the little sister rocks as the mother talks about the escape from Odessa. Soon we will all be cold, so we continue the interview at McDonalds on Mariahilferstrasse. There, six-year-old Maxi assembles a Maya the Bee set and Valeriia unleashes her anger.
Source: Krone
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