Lena Kurlova's family has been reunited on Gotland

- It was a difficult decision, but our daughters insisted, says Liliiya Kurlova when SVT Nyheter Öst meets the family at Brukshotellet in Roma where they live with about thirty other refugees from Ukraine.

As a child, 91-year-old Alexander experienced the horrors of World War II.

But what is happening now in Ukraine gives him almost worse feelings.

- I was then ten years old.

I saw dead people after a bomb hit our yard and I smelled burnt meat.

I saw people hanging in the streets.

As a child, it was a horrible experience that followed me through life.

So when this happens today in Ukraine, with more advanced weapons killing, it's very scary.

I feel that the situation will be worse now than it was during World War II, says Alexander Kurlov.

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