{"id":10228,"date":"2023-11-17T16:09:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T15:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/?p=10228"},"modified":"2023-11-17T16:09:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T15:09:55","slug":"beyond-boundaries-a-volunteers-tale-from-the-ukrainian-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/10228\/beyond-boundaries-a-volunteers-tale-from-the-ukrainian-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Boundaries: A Volunteer&#8217;s Tale from the Ukrainian War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Russia invaded Ukraine on the 24<sup>th<\/sup> of February in 2022, naturally, there was an enormous spike in the amount of people leaving Ukraine. But people didn\u2019t only LEAVE Ukraine, there were also many people that came to Ukraine in February 2022 to aid Ukranians at the border.<\/p>\n<p>One of these people who came to help, is Alice from Italy. 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