Iryna Rudenko from Luhansk
Hello! My name is Iryna. I have 4 children. Now we are in the Chernivtsi region. We are from the Luhansk region. The worst for me was the shots, at that moment I was leaving the operation. The war met us with my husband in Kyiv. The children were with their mother-in-law in Severodonetsk. Planes flew over Severodonetsk, the town was bombed. We could not leave Kyiv because there was big congestion at the exit. We asked friends, they took our children. We met in the city of Dnipro. My husband and I went to the Luhansk region to pick up things. We have already returned in different cars. The husband left earlier. My husband and I took our things on the night of 24 to 25 and left. Explosions of shells were already heard outside the town. We went to the Lviv region for 3 days. We lived there for a month. Now we are in the Chernivtsi region. We evacuated 3 teenage children with us. Their parents remained in the occupied territories. The children live with us now. Thank God we survived, that the most valuable thing we have – our children – are with us. Our town is destroyed. The houses burned down. Before the war, I took care of children, and now I am also with children. The eldest son is 14 years old, the younger son is 12 years old, the daughter is 8 years old, and the youngest is 7 years old. And there are those teenage children, they are 16, 17 and 14 years old. Everyone is with us. All the best!