For months, she had been kept away by the dangers of Russia’s war in Ukraine, stranded on a river island, after the front line shifted while she was on vacation.
To feed her children, she fished in the Dnipro River and scavenged for canned goods in abandoned summer homes.
Only by the chance of a massive flood washing over the island — and washing away some Russian positions — was Kateryna Krupych able to escape Russian-occupied Ukraine in the south.
The destruction of a dam along the Dnipro river and the flood that followed brought devastation to tens of thousands of people in southern Ukraine.
To Ms Krupych and dozens of others, it brought freedom, a chance to reunite with their loved ones.
Persons:
—, Kateryna, Ms Krupych
Locations:
Ukraine, Dnipro