Badajoz. The last stop for those fleeing the war before arriving in Portugal – Observer
The most common routestarts in Poland, passes through Germany, France, Barcelona, Madrid, Badajoz and the last destination is Lisbon”, explains the head of the Red Cross. Tatyana Hurova went through exactly these countries and cities in just over a week. She left Mykolaiv, near Odessa, a port region in southern Ukraine, on the 15th of March and boarded the train to Portugal on the 24th.
This 49-year-old woman knows few words in English and none in Portuguese, but has a school friend who has been in Portugal for over 20 years. “He speaks very, very good Portuguese and will help us”, explains Tatyana, after recording her voice so that the cell phone can translate into Portuguese what she is saying in Ukrainian. Translations for instant voice or text applications are used constantly for those who pass by, since few speak English and no one masters the Portuguese language. Tatyana through an application, Tatyana talks about the hope she has in returning to Ukraine with her two daughters, Yullia Kravchenko, 14 years old, and Hanna Hurova, Even 20 years old, and their little dog Nikole, who despite having a waterproof, it shivers with the cold that is felt in Badajoz. what she has at the moment is that stay in Portugal for a short time.
My father is Russian, we speak Russian at home. Many people speak Russian in my city. We have a peaceful people who are being blatantly bombed under the pretense that they are doing a good thing. My city is being bombed very hard.”
As this mother speaks, the eldest daughter rushes past her. She takes a bowl of food in her hands. “She’s upset, they’ve been very depressed since they left Ukraine,” she says. And the youngest daughter approaches her mother, picks up the dog that has been barking since she arrived in Badajoz, puts her on her lap and protects her with her coat. Contrary to what happened to the man from the family of seven who also goes to Lisbon, the father of these young men was forced to stay in Ukraine to join Ukrainian military forces and fight Kremlin troops.