A tearful daughter embraced her father as the family reunited following his evacuation from Oleshky.
Mykhailo Palii's children rushed to him after he arrived by bus in Ukraine on Saturday (October 31), along with his partner, Zhanna Ptakhova.
He had been evacuated from the Russian-controlled Ukrainian town under a rare localised ceasefire aimed at preventing mass starvation on the southern frontline.
Starved and exhausted Ukrainians said they “escaped from hell” as they arrived home. An elderly man in a wheelchair said he had lost 20kg over the past year, becoming so weak that he required hospital treatment. Another evacuee said that they had to eat grass to survive food shortages.
