Ukrainian War Widows on the Edge

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Ukrainian War Widows on the Edge

It’s not easy to walk up a hill with your arms crossed, but Viktoria Cherichansky is trying. Many of the other women—all recent widows from Ukraine—are clumped into groups of two or three, but Cherichansky, 42, walks alone. She looks like she’s trying to get this part of the day over with. It’s morning three of a five-day Climb to Heal program in Slovenia. Here, the women and their children, who were bused from war-torn areas, are hosted by a te…