At 91, siege of Leningrad survivor is besieged by war again
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Alevtina Shernina was a young girl when she survived the brutal siege of Leningrad during World War II. Eight decades later, so frail she can barely talk, or move unassisted, she is besieged again.
The 91-year-old lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city and one of the most battered urban areas in Russia’s invasion. The bombardment has come so close that windows in her apartment building were blown out.
And yet Shernina cannot flee, even to a bomb shelter. Her heart problems leave her too fragile to be carried down the flights of stairs to the basement when air raid sirens scream.
She could communicate before Russia’s invasion but now is almost unresponsive, her daughter-in-law Natalia said.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-kharkiv-world-war-ii-7339b841e05ee2cde415371b0c332dc8
Pooty's folks survived Leningrad but I assume they're long since dead.