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Yuliia Boklah

Yuliia Boklah is a PR-Specialist and Board member at the Helping to Leave charitable project. Since the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion, the project team has helped more than 21,000 Ukrainians leave the temporarily occupied territories and Russia, where Ukrainians had been deported. Helping to Leave also works to raise awareness about the situation in the occupation and shares the stories of people who have lived through it, along with Russian crimes.

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We are fighting to avoid becoming a Ukrainian shell of a Russian entity

by Yuliia Boklah
About the author: Yuliia Boklah is a PR specialist and board member of the Helping to Leave charitable project, which has evacuated more than 21,000 Ukrainians from occupied territories or deportation since Russia’s full-scale invasion. It’s Friday evening. I am wrapping up urgent work matters and glancing at the news. In Ternopil, the rubble of a residential building destroyed by a Russian missile is still being cleared, and society is being rocked by new painful updates and heartbreaking sto