4 minutes agoUkrainian in Albania: We were like brothers and sisters with the Russians.
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Oksana Genkina has been living in Tirana for nearly 10 years, where she has created her family. Taken from Ukraine in 2012, two years before Russia's annexation of Crime, she says the crisis between the two states seems more political than the conflict between the two peoples. In August, I joined my husband and children [...]
In August, I went with my husband and children to visit the family in Kharkiv. They live two hours off the border with Russia. I communicate with my family there every day. Life follows normally, no panic. If it were a very scary situation, people would buy food”, Oksana in A2 CNN's journal.
I'm so sorry that the situation has come to this point, because we were like brother and sister, since Russia and Ukraine were part of the Soviet Union. I think it's political, because people feel very good about each other. My parents come in the summer to enjoy holidays in Albania, but life they see there. I hope this story ends peacefully and doesn't go on further”.
For now, Oksana does not think about going back home, but she says that one day, her children can do that. It is hoped that politics will find a solution, because according to it, people on both sides of the border know how to co-exist very well. We were always like brothers and sisters. People don't hate each other. Almost everyone in Ukraine knows Russian, we don't have communication problems. I hope politics finds common language, and ceases conflict <x1...
