A 98-year-old woman left the occupied part of Ocheretyne, Donetsk Region, on foot to get to the free Ukrainian territory.
According to the National Police, Lidiya Stepanivna walked all day without food or water, covered about 10 km, fell down several times and, as she says, "fell asleep". She was holding on with two canes and her "character". In the midst of the fighting, the pensioner miraculously survived.
In the evening, the military saw the tired pedestrian on the road and handed her over to the White Angel police group. The police took the woman to a shelter for evacuees, where she is being taken care of.
After the "march-throw" Lidiya Stepanivna feels well, and her family is going to take her home.
"I survived that war and I'm going through this war. I was left with nothing. But I walked out with my Ukraine," the woman says.
The house that the resident of Ocheretyne built with her own hands was destroyed by the Russians, and her family was injured.
"Fleeing from the occupiers, the woman, at the age of 98, did the impossible," the National Police said.
Law enforcement officials in Donetsk Region remind people to evacuate in time.