When he was ten, Illia Koliiev was forced to flee South Ossetia with his parents after Russia came to ‘rescue’ them.

When the full-scale war in Ukraine broke out, he found himself in a small district centre in the western part of the country, where love took him.

Russia's attack on his second homeland did not leave Illia aside.

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