Kateryna from Oleshky
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Due to possible threats to the security of this family, we chose to unpublish the images identifying the family. The family remains under occupation, and truly needs help.
Good day! I don’t want to show my face. I did not remember all the questions, I will answer mixed. On February 24, I did not go to work, I had a day off from work. That day I had to go to apply for social benefits from the country. I am divorced and raising children myself. The ex-husband did not pay alimony. I gave help, I got help. That day I also went to apply for help, but the war began. I worked, I had a job, and I could provide for myself and my children. The children went to school and kindergarten. They have never been there since February 24 because the war broke out. That day we slept, my mother came in and told me that the war had started. We did not believe it. Then we heard and saw this war, we heard shots, we saw the massacre, we saw people killed, and burnt military equipment. The bridge was covered with burnt equipment and human corpses. It’s very difficult to look at, very. I have not received any help during this time. I applied for social benefits, as well as sent an application to international organizations, but no avail. The occupiers are distributing humanitarian aid, but I have never received it. I don’t need their “help”. My mother helps, and my boyfriend helps because I don’t have any money now. Half a month ago, I applied for social benefits for unemployment but received nothing. I continue to apply to various sites. I want Ukraine to remain Ukraine. We are now in the occupied territories. Everything is expensive, there are no funds. Everything is not ours, not our products. Our products are almost gone. Their products taste awful and are expensive. We need to prepare for winter, we need funds, we need medicine, we need clothes and food. It’s all over. We used the money we bought to buy food, cereals, and flour. Now everything is over, there is no money. It can have us sit in the basements, it can have the city suffer, but I want us to stay in Ukraine. This is the most important thing. We will rebuild the city. The biggest pity is the guys who died. It’s a pity our guys are dying. It is a pity that there was no help from other countries, now this help is coming, but very slowly. Our guys are good, they are strong. They are defending our Ukraine. I do not want to be under occupation, but where to go? I’m home. I now live with my mother in her house. I do not want to leave my home, I want to wait for the liberation of our city. I do not remember all the questions. The situation became worse with the beginning of the war. Almost no one leaves the house. It is difficult for children. They are afraid of explosions, but I calm them down and talk to them. They are still holding on. But what is happening in our other cities of Ukraine, they know all this, it is very difficult for them. They ask. They feel sorry for people. We do not want to go. We will wait for the liberation of the city. We want to live in our free country. I do not want to be occupied for long. Money is needed for food and medicine, as well as for canning for the winter, and clothes. We do not know what awaits us next, but if we are released, we would very much like the children to go on to study and for it to be Ukraine. We are very much waiting for our guys, I am very sorry for them. I want them all to return home alive, but many of them have already died. Let everything be Ukraine!