{"id":1369543,"date":"2022-03-10T10:11:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T15:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1369543"},"modified":"2022-03-10T15:15:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T20:15:56","slug":"now-im-just-dust-she-was-an-english-teacher-in-ukraine-then-the-rockets-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/now-im-just-dust-she-was-an-english-teacher-in-ukraine-then-the-rockets-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Now I\u2019m Just Dust\u2019: She Was An English Teacher In Ukraine. Then The Rockets Hit."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnow-im-just-dust-she-was-an-english-teacher-in-ukraine-then-the-rockets-hit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1369543&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/Bila-Tserkva.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>KORCZOWA, Poland \u2014 Before the Russian invasion, Lilith Huseimaliieva was an English teacher from Bila Tserkva, a city roughly 50 miles from the bustling capital city of Kyiv, Ukraine. Now, she and her daughter are in a place they don\u2019t recognize; her husband is back in Ukraine; and she doesn\u2019t know where she will end up next.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn my hometown, I was a respected person. Now I\u2019m just dust,\u201d Huseimaliieva told The Daily Wire in an in-person interview, on a bus filled with refugees traveling to the Polish border from Lviv. \u201c<\/span>This is how war changes your life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>Huseimaliieva, 36, fled after it became clear Bila Tserkva would be on the war line. The rockets didn\u2019t spare the city. One of them, she said, nearly struck her sister\u2019s house. It missed, but the blast shattered all the windows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cYou know, they were saying Russia\u2019s going to attack, Russia\u2019s going to attack,\u201d she said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t believe it because we are connected. We are interlaced with Russians and Belarusians many, many generations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Huseimaliieva<\/span> is one of the millions of Ukrainians whose lives have been upended by the war. According to U.N. estimates, over 2 million refugees had left Ukraine for neighboring countries as of Tuesday. Hundreds of people have been killed, and the number is only expected to grow.<\/p>\n<p><span>Like many, Huseimaliieva and her daughter, 13, packed quickly. She left early in the morning and arrived at a Polish refugee camp at 2:45 am. From there, she took a five-hour bus to Warsaw. She spent the night with a host family and was offered a shower. She plans to go to Germany next.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>She also fears she will never see her husband again.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t even have words to put to you the way I feel. It\u2019s like I left my heart with him. I feel empty inside,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She says the decision to leave home, with only a suitcase, was a \u201cvery, very hard choice.\u201d She admits she cries most nights. But she knows she must think of her daughter\u2019s future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On the bus, her daughter keeps her spirits high. <\/span><span>She accompanied her mother and was proud of her mother for speaking English and speaking to journalists. She even had her mother translate a few sentences to chat with the journalists. <\/span><span>But beyond the surface, her daughter, like the several other children on the bus, was exhausted. The nearly 18 hours of travel was evident on their faces as they sat on the laps of their parents and fell asleep before being ushered off the bus to go through security at the border. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When they reach Poland, they are greeted with stuffed animals, snacks, and warm drinks. Many of the parents sip coffee, smiles hiding their 1,000-yard stares. They converse about their journey so far, and the one still to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn Ukraine, we have this very popular poet; her name is Lesya Ukrainka,\u201d Huseimaliieva said. \u201cAnd she had a poem, and she said, \u2018I laugh not to cry.\u2019 So it\u2019s like, probably our position we laugh because we want to hide our tears.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Huseimaliieva is concerned about what the invasion could mean for the rest of the world. She warns, \u201cno one is safe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t even know what\u2019s going to be next,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m actually really afraid for the world\u2019s destiny because if this man, [Putin], calls us brothers and sisters and comes to destroy our houses and kill our children and women. Can you imagine what he can do to other parts of the world who thinks are his enemies and competition?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span>member<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KORCZOWA, Poland \u2014 Before the Russian invasion, Lilith Huseimaliieva was an English teacher from Bila Tserkva, a city roughly 50 miles from the bustling capital city of Kyiv, Ukraine. 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