Kateryna Havrylyna from Bilozerka
Good afternoon, my name is Kateryna Havryliuk, I am from the village of Bilozerka, Kherson region, a mother of many children.
I will answer your questions. I live near Kherson, so of course I will remember this day forever because on this day my uncle and guys from our village got together and went to the lilac park with Molotov cocktails and everyone died there, we couldn’t even take them away for a long time. The Russians did not give them back.
How has your life changed? I started to have severe psoriasis. Unfortunately, I can’t afford the medicine, so I just buy solidol and put it on my skin to help it somehow. I worked and still work as a veterinarian in our state hospital, studying on a budget for veterinary examination and sanitation. I have three children, aged 17, 12 and 8. We live near Chornobaivka, there was constant shelling, the children did not come out of the basement. Now we are in Odesa, the air defense system is working, but we also sat in the corridor all night, because, unfortunately, we do not have a basement.
We do not receive any benefits as a large family.
When we were leaving, there was an occupation, when we passed all the Russian checkpoints, they asked for cigarettes and vodka, the children were sitting like mice.
And when they saw our guys, they gave the children chocolates! When we arrived in Mykolaiv, I had a feeling that there was a completely different air there, the air of FREEDOM!
You know, God forbid that someone else should experience this… I am afraid that we will simply have nowhere to return to, because our village is shelled every day. Many of my friends and relatives have nowhere to live.
This is the most terrible thing.