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Voice from Abkhazia | ‘The war robbed me of everything’

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•6 min read

Stella Adleyba, 26, OC Media’s correspondent in Abkhazia. ‘When the war in Abkhazia began, I was only a year old. My Dad went to the front in the first days of the war, so we were left alone: my mother, my brother, and me. Of course, I don’t remember what happened in those days, but all of my life I have listened to the stories of my mother and brother about what we went through back then.’ [Read in Georgian — სტატია ქართულ ენაზე] ‘Two months after the outbreak of the war, on 22 Oct