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When Valentyna Vereteska fled her home in Mykolaiv with her 11-year-old daughter a month ago, leaving her whole life behind, she certainly did not imagine that she would raise her arms to the sky at the finish line of the Jerusalem marathon.
Russia had just invaded Ukraine and her city would be bombed shortly after: Vereteska did not even pack her suitcase, she headed directly to the Polish border where I wait 15 hours – in the cold and frost, without food – to cross the border. To