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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