JAKARTA - Surrounded by his family in Binjai, North Sumatra, Mr Iskandar feels grateful to be home. Only a few weeks ago, he thought he would die as he took shelter from Russian shelling in a bunker in the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv.
Chernihiv - home to around 280,000 people - was one of the first targets for Russian troops invading Ukraine from Belarus, as they moved swiftly to reach the capital Kyiv, some 144km to the south.
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