The Denisenkos and their four children fled the conflict in eastern Ukraine last fall. But the warm welcome they had been promised in Russia never materialized. Instead, the family is facing hostility, unemployment, and crushing poverty. They now desperately want to return home.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Hopes turn to despair for Donetsk family in Russia (VIDEO)
Local residents walk out of a destroyed house in the village of Ozeryanovka on May 27, 2015 in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic
