A 98-year-old Ukrainian woman said she walked 10 kilometers under Russian fire, Reuters and BTA report.
In her words, the woman helped herself to walk with improvised canes and slept on the ground, fleeing from the Russian-occupied village of Ocheretine in the Donetsk region, in an attempt to reach territory under the control of Kiev, the agency adds.
The woman, whose name is Lydia Stepanovna, said in a video released yesterday by the Ukrainian police on social networks that she walked without water and food and fell several times, but her "character" moved her forward.
"I lived through that war (the Second World War), I live through this war as well,'' says Stepanovna, sitting on a bed in a shelter, dressed in a coat that does not fit her, and with a scarf on her head, and in her hand she is still clutching a wooden stick that she used as a walking stick, notes Reuters.
"I was left with nothing. I left my Ukraine on foot," she adds, pointing out that the war Russia is now waging against her country is nothing like World War II.
"Homes are burning and trees are being uprooted," she says.
Ukraine's Interior Ministry said in a statement on its website that the woman was found by Ukrainian military personnel in the evening and handed over to the police, who took her to a shelter for evacuees.
"Law enforcement officials are looking for her relatives," the ministry explains.
Reuters points out that it is currently unclear where the woman was found. The agency draws attention to the fact that the Russian invasion, now in its third year, has left millions of Ukrainians homeless after ravaging their towns and villages.