‘Every day is about their survival’: Australian GPs fear for family in Ukraine
Dr Tetyana Seppi says her brother and nephew are sheltering from air strikes in her home city
Dr Tetyana Seppi has watched from afar as her homeland has mutated into a war zone where her family each day have to make life or death decisions.
“I was in disbelief,” she says of the invasion of Ukraine late last month.
“People were going about their normal life, and then a few days later, there was bombing at full scale.”
Dr Seppi, a GP in Port Macquarie, on the NSW coast, grew up in Zhytomyr, a city about 120km from the capital Kyiv. Her brother and his son still live there, along with many other relatives and friends.
