Ukrainian-Syrian couple 部隊d in 苦痛 原因(となる)d by ありふれた enemy: Putin

By Joseph Nasr

BERLIN, March 5 (Reuters) - Anna Yarysh says she cries at テレビ放送するd (映画の)フィート数 showing the ロシアの 軍の's 破壊 of 都市の centres in her native ウクライナ共和国, but she finds solace in a boyfriend who feels her 苦痛: Syrian 難民 Anas Modamani.

Yarysh and Modamani, who met two years ago at the University of 適用するd Sciences in Berlin, never imagined that streets in Kyiv where they wandered during a visit last year would look like war zones that bring to mind the Syrian 衝突.

"I always 手配中の,お尋ね者 to hear his story because it was important for me to understand what people in Syria went through," said Yarysh, 28, sitting next to Modamani on a sofa in their one-room apartment. "But now that I'm living a 類似の 状況/情勢 with events in ウクライナ共和国, my feeling is different. You have to experience it to understand how difficult and scary it is."

Hanging on a 塀で囲む in their apartment is a red 掲示 with the words "Stop Putin," a Syrian 旗 and a 手渡す in ウクライナ共和国's blue and yellow 国家の colours making a victory gesture.

Modamani, 24, fled Syria in 2015 の直前に ロシアの 大統領 Vladimir Putin 開始する,打ち上げるd an 空中の 軍の (選挙などの)運動をする against 対立 要塞/本拠地s that helped tip the 衝突 in favour of 大統領 Bashar al-Assad. He and Yarysh use their 解放する/自由な time to bring food and 着せる/賦与するing to Ukrainian women and children arriving in the German 資本/首都 on trains from Poland.

For Modamani, train 駅/配置するs filling with Ukrainian 難民s evokes memories of 2015 when he and thousands of migrants おもに from Syria and Iraq were welcomed by applauding Germans at the main train 駅/配置する in the southern city of Munich after harrowing 旅行s on foot from Greece.

"I tried to forget memories of my experience in Syria and now the memories are creeping up because (of) my girlfriend who is going through 類似の circumstances," said Modamani. "We have a ありふれた enemy: Putin. He obliterated my 母国, and now he is doing the same in ウクライナ共和国."

Yarysh takes a moment for a ビデオ phone call with a childhood friend in Kyiv who said he was 輸送(する)ing cat and dog food for abandoned pets roaming the streets of the Ukrainian 資本/首都, searching for their owners.

The 簡潔な/要約する conversation ends with smiles and "Long live ウクライナ共和国." (Editing by Cynthia Osterman)

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