Yuliia Kulchytska, 41, was at the train station in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, on April 8 to see off her daughter’s boyfriend, who was headed to Kyiv, when the station came under a Russian missile strike.
She lost her leg and came close to losing her life.
In a May 7 video call, WhoWhatWhy correspondent Iryna Kabluchko interviews Kulchytska — an animal lover, poet, and mother of two — from an apartment where she was temporarily staying in the city of Dnipro.