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Ukrainian who walked 140 miles to safety to feature in London exhibition

Ukrainian who walked 140 miles to safety to feature in London exhibition

Story of Igor Pedin’s escape from Mariupol is one of about a dozen in an exhibition entitled What Would You Take?

The secret to Igor Pedin’s survival had been his invisibility, the 61-year-old had said.

With his dog, Zhu-Zhu, the former ship’s cook banked on being ignored by the trigger-happy Russian soldiers and their killing machines when he took the first step of a 140-mile journey from his home in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on 23 April, before stealing out into the badlands of Russian-occupied territories towards the relative safety in the city of Zaporizhzhia.

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