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Yuliya Dvornychenko from Donetsk

Hello, my name is Yulia Dvornychenko. I am from the Donetsk region, the city of Chistyakovo. In March 2021, the so-called MGB officers of the Donetsk People's Republic came to my family and me and accused me and my husband of being Ukrainian spies, took me and my husband away, I was held captive for 1 year and 7 months, my husband is still there. We went through terrible torture, it's impossible to convey in a three-minute video. Thanks to God and our authorities, I was released through a women's exchange that took place in October 2022. I got to Kyiv and started thinking about how to get my children out of the occupation. The children were under guardianship, I have two sons, they are minors, and they were under the care of my friend. It was very difficult to take them away, and I was helped by the Ministry of Reintegration, Iryna Vereshchuk. It took two months to get my children back because since I was not in the so-called Donetsk republic, they wanted to send my younger son Mark to an orphanage somewhere in Russia, so it was just an unrealistic struggle for my children for two months. Thanks to the Ministry of Reintegration, my children are now with me in December 2022, they returned to me here in Kyiv, and we live together. The eldest son is 19 years old, the youngest is 12 years old. The younger son is now ill, and we need money to get him examined. Thank you.

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Yuliya Dvornychenko from Donetsk

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Hello, my name is Yulia Dvornychenko. I am from the Donetsk region, the city of Chistyakovo.
In March 2021, the so-called MGB officers of the Donetsk People’s Republic came to my family and me and accused me and my husband of being Ukrainian spies, took me and my husband away, I was held captive for 1 year and 7 months, my husband is still there.
We went through terrible torture, it’s impossible to convey in a three-minute video. Thanks to God and our authorities, I was released through a women’s exchange that took place in October 2022. I got to Kyiv and started thinking about how to get my children out of the occupation. The children were under guardianship, I have two sons, they are minors, and they were under the care of my friend. It was very difficult to take them away, and I was helped by the Ministry of Reintegration, Iryna Vereshchuk. It took two months to get my children back because since I was not in the so-called Donetsk republic, they wanted to send my younger son Mark to an orphanage somewhere in Russia, so it was just an unrealistic struggle for my children for two months.
Thanks to the Ministry of Reintegration, my children are now with me in December 2022, they returned to me here in Kyiv, and we live together. The eldest son is 19 years old, the youngest is 12 years old. The younger son is now ill, and we need money to get him examined. Thank you.
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Khrystyna Yermakova from Hola Prystan

Good afternoon, we are a family of IDPs from the Kherson region in the town of Hola Prystan. At the moment, our house burned down, because there was no fire service in our town, it was taken to Skadovsk, which takes 2 hours to get to, and during this period of time there was no communication in the town, even Russian communication did not work. Our neighbours could not even call the fire brigade. My parents' house and my grandmother's house were flooded as a result of the explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, the walls were destroyed and half of the walls in the building crumbled. We are now in Kyiv, all together. Recently, my grandmother, who was under occupation before the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station was blown up, came to live with us because she has nowhere else to live. She stayed with relatives on the second floor for a while, and then she and the rest of her neighbours moved to us because there was no food there, there were a lot of dead animals, dead people, and it was simply not possible to stay there anymore. When the war started, we did not even understand what had happened. Our town was occupied from the first days of the war. We just saw convoys of tanks coming down the road. We didn't even understand whose tanks they were, ours or not, because they had no flags or identification marks. There were just people with machine guns moving. During the period of occupation, which we lived in our city for more than 6 months. They took my husband once, he was a patrol officer, and the Nazis just came one day, tied a bag over his head and took him to a sanatorium where he was kept for 2 days. They told him to confess that he had taken grenades and kept some weapons at home. Although there was no such thing.  

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Khrystyna Yermakova from Hola Prystan

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Good afternoon, we are a family of IDPs from the Kherson region in the town of Hola Prystan. At the moment, our house burned down, because there was no fire service in our town, it was taken to Skadovsk, which takes 2 hours to get to, and during this period of time there was no communication in the town, even Russian communication did not work. Our neighbours could not even call the fire brigade. My parents’ house and my grandmother’s house were flooded as a result of the explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, the walls were destroyed and half of the walls in the building crumbled.

We are now in Kyiv, all together. Recently, my grandmother, who was under occupation before the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station was blown up, came to live with us because she has nowhere else to live. She stayed with relatives on the second floor for a while, and then she and the rest of her neighbours moved to us because there was no food there, there were a lot of dead animals, dead people, and it was simply not possible to stay there anymore.

When the war started, we did not even understand what had happened. Our town was occupied from the first days of the war. We just saw convoys of tanks coming down the road. We didn’t even understand whose tanks they were, ours or not, because they had no flags or identification marks. There were just people with machine guns moving.

During the period of occupation, which we lived in our city for more than 6 months. They took my husband once, he was a patrol officer, and the Nazis just came one day, tied a bag over his head and took him to a sanatorium where he was kept for 2 days. They told him to confess that he had taken grenades and kept some weapons at home. Although there was no such thing.

 

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Tetyana Lavruk from Kharkiv

Good afternoon, we are a family from Kharkiv. Me, my husband, our 11-year-old child and our cat. My child, my husband, and I live in Poltava region and rent a one-room apartment. My husband stayed in Kharkiv. On the first day when the war started, we were woken up by the cat at 4:50 a.m. We heard explosions and realised that the war had started. South Saltovka, less than a kilometre away. They came very close, everything was shaking, people started running somewhere, someone was buying food, my husband went to work, my child and I went to buy food, we stood in Silpo for 5 hours, but we couldn't buy anything at all. For five days we stayed at home in the corridor with an icon and a cat because it was very scary when Grad hit. Guns are also very scary. It's very scary when a child of 11 screams: Mum! I don't want to die! The shelling starts and we cover him with my husband and me. We told him: 'Yevhen, if something happens to us, take your backpack and run to school, my sister and mother have phone numbers, they live in Bohodukhiv. We stayed like that for five days. When the house of my husband's mother was heavily shelled (she lives in the neighbouring district) with Grad rockets, the windows were smashed and cars were damaged, she ran to spend the night (it was already curfew, we could not take her) to the kindergarten, she works there as a teacher. She ran to the basement there. In the morning, we left, across Kharkiv, under fire, to take her, me with the child and the cat out. We went to the Poltava region, which is quieter, but we really want to go home. I work as an assistant teacher in an inclusive group with special children.... Before the war, we had other priorities, we wanted to go somewhere to relax, improve our child's health, make repairs and just buy something new.... But now we have different priorities, we live one day at a time. Literally, we live as if it's the last day, you don't know where, what, when and where it will arrive.... Life is probably the most important thing in life! God forbid someone to know what war is! Thank you very much!

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Tetyana Lavruk from Kharkiv

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Good afternoon, we are a family from Kharkiv. Me, my husband, our 11-year-old child and our cat. My child, my husband, and I live in Poltava region and rent a one-room apartment. My husband stayed in Kharkiv.

On the first day when the war started, we were woken up by the cat at 4:50 a.m. We heard explosions and realised that the war had started. South Saltovka, less than a kilometre away. They came very close, everything was shaking, people started running somewhere, someone was buying food, my husband went to work, my child and I went to buy food, we stood in Silpo for 5 hours, but we couldn’t buy anything at all. For five days we stayed at home in the corridor with an icon and a cat because it was very scary when Grad hit. Guns are also very scary. It’s very scary when a child of 11 screams: Mum! I don’t want to die! The shelling starts and we cover him with my husband and me. We told him: ‘Yevhen, if something happens to us, take your backpack and run to school, my sister and mother have phone numbers, they live in Bohodukhiv. We stayed like that for five days.

When the house of my husband’s mother was heavily shelled (she lives in the neighbouring district) with Grad rockets, the windows were smashed and cars were damaged, she ran to spend the night (it was already curfew, we could not take her) to the kindergarten, she works there as a teacher. She ran to the basement there. In the morning, we left, across Kharkiv, under fire, to take her, me with the child and the cat out. We went to the Poltava region, which is quieter, but we really want to go home.

I work as an assistant teacher in an inclusive group with special children….

Before the war, we had other priorities, we wanted to go somewhere to relax, improve our child’s health, make repairs and just buy something new…. But now we have different priorities, we live one day at a time. Literally, we live as if it’s the last day, you don’t know where, what, when and where it will arrive…. Life is probably the most important thing in life! God forbid someone to know what war is! Thank you very much!

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Nataliya Lashchena from Vovchansk

Hello, my name is Natalia, I am 34 years old. I have a son, Bogdan, who is 10 years old. I am from the city of Vovchansk the Kharkiv region, which is located on the border with Russia. Before the war, I worked as a salesperson in a clothing store. From the first day of the war, our city was occupied by Russian troops, we were hiding in basements, it was very scary. When our city was liberated from the occupiers in September, my son and I left for Kharkiv because there was heavy shelling with all kinds of weapons and even an air bomb. I could not go to work because I am a second-group disabled person with third-stage cancer. We receive money from the state for IDPs, live with friends, pay for utilities. Recently, I had a birthday and made a wish that this war would end and that we would never hear these explosions and air raids again! I believe that the war will end soon with Ukraine's victory! Glory to Ukraine!

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Hello, my name is Natalia, I am 34 years old. I have a son, Bogdan, who is 10 years old. I am from the city of Vovchansk the Kharkiv region, which is located on the border with Russia. Before the war, I worked as a salesperson in a clothing store. From the first day of the war, our city was occupied by Russian troops, we were hiding in basements, it was very scary. When our city was liberated from the occupiers in September, my son and I left for Kharkiv because there was heavy shelling with all kinds of weapons and even an air bomb. I could not go to work because I am a second-group disabled person with third-stage cancer. We receive money from the state for IDPs, live with friends, pay for utilities. Recently, I had a birthday and made a wish that this war would end and that we would never hear these explosions and air raids again! I believe that the war will end soon with Ukraine’s victory! Glory to Ukraine!
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Nataliya Dvorichanska from Izyum

On February 24, we woke up at 5 a.m. to explosions. On March 3, the Russians entered our village and we found ourselves under occupation. During the occupation, we had nothing in the shops, bread was brought to us sometimes, but we could not buy it all the time because it was brought in very small quantities. We left only after 3 months and ended up in the city of Kharkiv. The most terrible moment was when the Russians came to our street, took our neighbor away, they interrogated people and searched our homes. It was also scary when my husband and I were almost taken away because they didn't like that we had different surnames and didn't like that he had an ID. They proved that it was a car license. They almost took us away, but we asked them to let us go. They said they would take us until the circumstances were resolved... And there was no commandant at that time, so we could have stayed in prison for a month or two. The future of Ukraine is free! We want to be free and demined so that we can return home. Everything there is mined and it is dangerous to go there with children. The world needs to hear that Ukraine is free! It wants to be free! To those guys who are dying, thank you for my peaceful days and nights!

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Nataliya Dvorichanska from Izyum

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On February 24, we woke up at 5 a.m. to explosions. On March 3, the Russians entered our village and we found ourselves under occupation.

During the occupation, we had nothing in the shops, bread was brought to us sometimes, but we could not buy it all the time because it was brought in very small quantities.

We left only after 3 months and ended up in the city of Kharkiv.

The most terrible moment was when the Russians came to our street, took our neighbor away, they interrogated people and searched our homes. It was also scary when my husband and I were almost taken away because they didn’t like that we had different surnames and didn’t like that he had an ID. They proved that it was a car license. They almost took us away, but we asked them to let us go. They said they would take us until the circumstances were resolved… And there was no commandant at that time, so we could have stayed in prison for a month or two.

The future of Ukraine is free! We want to be free and demined so that we can return home. Everything there is mined and it is dangerous to go there with children.

The world needs to hear that Ukraine is free! It wants to be free! To those guys who are dying, thank you for my peaceful days and nights!

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Olena Skalytska from Balakliya

Good afternoon, my name is Olena. I lived with my family, my husband and two children, who were 6 and 8 years old at the beginning of the war, in the city of Balakliya, Kharkiv region. For us, as for many people, the war began on February 24 with the morning explosions, and then, probably, like everyone else, there was fear, misunderstanding of the situation, what would happen next, what to do... Total confusion. We decided to go to our parents in the village, because we thought that the village was a safer place, it was small and few people would need it. But it didn't happen that way, because during the first week, a very large number of military vehicles arrived there. Massive shelling and buying food from stores began, because there are only a few shops in the village and there is no food delivery. We decided to leave the village and go back to Balakliya. We had to go through Russian checkpoints, they were already set up. We had to meet Russian vehicles. By that time, the cars with civilians were already under fire for no reason, so it was very scary to drive. You didn't know whether you would get there or not, whether it was the right decision or not... Driving to meet a convoy that is adjusting the muzzle of a tank right at your car, even though you rolled down the windows and opened the doors so they could see that there were children inside... But you have no way out, you are completely dependent on the people who pointed that muzzle at you... We decided to go to the city of Dnipro to visit our relatives, where there was no occupation. Before the war, she and her husband worked as family doctors. Now in Dnipro we got a job, our children were transferred to a local school, a music school, and an art school. We try to provide them with everything they had before the war. How did the children react? At first, it was fear and panic, or perhaps they passed on our fear. Everything that had been before was broken... You couldn't buy anything, especially food and other necessities. We stayed with relatives in Dnipro for a few months, and now we rent a house, which is a big financial component that we didn't have before, because we had our own house and absolutely everything we needed. The biggest need was all household items.      

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Olena Skalytska from Balakliya

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Good afternoon, my name is Olena. I lived with my family, my husband and two children, who were 6 and 8 years old at the beginning of the war, in the city of Balakliya, Kharkiv region. For us, as for many people, the war began on February 24 with the morning explosions, and then, probably, like everyone else, there was fear, misunderstanding of the situation, what would happen next, what to do… Total confusion.

We decided to go to our parents in the village, because we thought that the village was a safer place, it was small and few people would need it. But it didn’t happen that way, because during the first week, a very large number of military vehicles arrived there. Massive shelling and buying food from stores began, because there are only a few shops in the village and there is no food delivery.

We decided to leave the village and go back to Balakliya. We had to go through Russian checkpoints, they were already set up. We had to meet Russian vehicles. By that time, the cars with civilians were already under fire for no reason, so it was very scary to drive. You didn’t know whether you would get there or not, whether it was the right decision or not…

Driving to meet a convoy that is adjusting the muzzle of a tank right at your car, even though you rolled down the windows and opened the doors so they could see that there were children inside… But you have no way out, you are completely dependent on the people who pointed that muzzle at you…

We decided to go to the city of Dnipro to visit our relatives, where there was no occupation.
Before the war, she and her husband worked as family doctors. Now in Dnipro we got a job, our children were transferred to a local school, a music school, and an art school. We try to provide them with everything they had before the war.

How did the children react? At first, it was fear and panic, or perhaps they passed on our fear.

Everything that had been before was broken… You couldn’t buy anything, especially food and other necessities.

We stayed with relatives in Dnipro for a few months, and now we rent a house, which is a big financial component that we didn’t have before, because we had our own house and absolutely everything we needed. The biggest need was all household items.

 

 

 

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