But they finally decided to leave until peace returned. The family scraped by for a month sheltered in the basement without water or electricity. They likely would not have met if not for a bomb that exploded in Maxim’s yard, blowing all the windows out of the house he shared with his parents. The men, now both in their early thirties, were living almost 20 miles apart in the eastern Ukrainian region called the Donbas, where Russian-backed separatists went to war in 2014. Now Russian bombs have driven them apart. Russian bombs brought Stepan and Maxim together. ![]() A volunteer holds a 'Progress Pride Flag' to mark special assistance to LGBTQ+ people as Ukrainians fleeing the war in Ukraine - Credit: Omer Messinger/Getty Images
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