The year that was: ‘I couldn’t leave my mother to die’
Dr Natalia Peker used a phone and family contacts to get her mother to safety
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AusDoc is looking back at the year. Here is the story of Dr Natalia Peker and her fight to ensure her elderly mother could escape Ukraine following the Russian invasion.
A few weeks ago, Dr Natalia Peker left her farm in Goulburn and drove to Sydney Airport, where she was reunited with her mother, Larissa.