Lidiia, a 98-year-old woman who last year walked nearly 10 kilometres on foot to escape from a partially occupied settlement in Donetsk Oblast, has passed away.

Source: Ihor Zinkevych, member of Lviv City Council

Details: In April 2024, Lidiia Stepanivna left her home destroyed by Russian forces in a partially occupied settlement. Together with her son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter, she decided to reach Ukrainian-controlled territory on their own.

Along the way, the family was forced to split up, and the elderly woman had to walk the entire day under shelling. She covered almost 10 kilometres, falling several times from exhaustion but getting up each time to continue.

"Amid intense fighting, the pensioner miraculously survived and was unharmed," law enforcement officers reported at the time.

Later, Lidiia's passport was reissued after her old documents were destroyed by the Russians. She later moved from a shelter for evacuees to a new home purchased for her by Monobank and its partners.

One of the bank's co-founders said he learned about the woman's story from Ukrainska Pravda's Telegram channel.

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