Adopted at eight, Tatyana was 2,000 miles away in Spain, but when Russian troop amassed she begged Angelika to join her
A cry of joy rang out as the two young women – one reeling from a 34-hour trek out of Ukraine and the other just off a late-night work shift – spotted each other on a pavement in Catalonia. The reunion had been decades in the making, the final details hastily hashed out as Russian tanks rolled on to the streets of Ukraine.
“The moment was both happy and sad,” said Angelika Batiai, 24. “Here I was seeing my sister again after 20 years, but on the other hand I had just left my family and friends in a country at war.”
