The breakaway regions of Georgia

Luda Salia (63)(Right), In 2016 opened a retirement home in Khurvaleti village and takes care of local elderly people. As a veteran, she worked as a war nurse and witnessed two wars fall of Abkhazia in the 90s and 2008 South Ossetia.“It was one of the most brutal periods for people in winter – villagers sheltered themselves in forests for months. I remember when helicopters flew over and they dropped bread" remembers Luda" Far away from her house, in 50 meters there are Russian military forces, controlling the occupied territory, as many times they tried to kidnap her but ineffectively, as she doesn't fear of them and already knows the price of war.