The 21st Show

Maryna Teplova: Firsthand Account of Fleeing Ukraine

Produced by Christine Hatfield and Brian Mackey
 
A crater from a Russian rocket attack is seen next to damaged homes in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The strike killed three people and wounded 13 others, according to the mayor. The attack came less than a day after 11 other rockets were fired at the city, one of the two main Ukrainian-held ones in Donetsk province, the focus of an ongoing Russian offensive to capture eastern Ukraine's Donbas region.

A crater from a Russian rocket attack is seen next to damaged homes in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The strike killed three people and wounded 13 others, according to the mayor. The attack came less than a day after 11 other rockets were fired at the city, one of the two main Ukrainian-held ones in Donetsk province, the focus of an ongoing Russian offensive to capture eastern Ukraine's Donbas region. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Maryna Teplova is a doctoral student in English at Illinois State University in Bloomington-Normal — but she's originally from the east-central Ukrainian city of Dnipro. She, her daughter and granddaughter fled the country early in the war and travelled through Poland and the Netherlands before landing in Illinois. 

To hear the latest on how her family’s doing and to get her reactions on developments in the war, The 21st welcomed back Maryna to the program.

Guest:

Maryna Teplova  
Doctoral Student in English at Illinois State University 
Originally from Dnipro (NEE-proh), Ukraine 
Her daughter and granddaughter live there, fled to Poland, then to the Netherlands