The war in Ukraine forced Lina Borets and her seven-year-old son, Tymur, to flee their home city of Dnipro on a commuter train earlier this month. When it skirted too close to Russian forces, she and other passengers were told not to use their cell phones and all the lights were turned off to avoid detection.
“I told him that it was time to sleep,” she recalled in an interview from an apartment unit in Wroclaw, Poland, where they are currently sheltered by a Polish family. “He believed me because it was dark outside.”
Borets has not explained anything about the
