From the sunny kitchen of a wooden house in the Moscow suburbs, Alla Levchenko recalled the shelling that rained down around her home in eastern Ukraine as a tempest, a storm of violence that killed families with children.
Levchenko, 31, fled to Russia from the rebel stronghold of Donetsk last year. Her family is ethnically Russian, but Levchenko was born in Ukraine back when both countries were part of the Soviet Union. Levchenko is the only person in her immediate family who doesn’t have Russian citizenship.
