98-year-old Ukrainian woman walks 10 km in slippers to escape Russian shelling

A 98-year-old Ukrainian woman said she walked 10 kilometres under shelling in just her slippers, supporting herself with sticks and sleeping on the ground. She left Ocheretyne, in Russian-occupied Donetsk, in an effort to reach areas controlled by Kyiv.

In a video posted by Ukraine's police on social media on Monday, the woman — identified as Lidia Stepanivna — said she had walked without food or water, and fell several times.

"I survived World War Two, and I am surviving this war," Stepanivna said, as she sat on a bed in a shelter. “That war was different. I saw it as well. None of the houses were burnt down. Houses are burning now.”

Ukraine's interior ministry said in a statement that the woman was discovered by Ukraine's military in the evening and handed to the police, who took her to a shelter for evacuees.

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