Leniye Seytmemetova from Kherson
We are a family of Crimean Tatars from the Kherson region. On the 24th, the war started at 4 in the morning, and heavy explosions began. The children were scared. For a month we lived in occupation without food, without medicine, in terror and fear. The last straw was the fact that our daughter’s friend was kidnapped, he was tortured for 2 days. After that, our family decided to leave. We left without “green corridors” due to hostilities, it was very scary. The children were very scared, so I’m telling you all this now without them because I don’t want them to call to mind this horror again. Now we live in Lutsk, there is no free housing here, so we rent an apartment for 13,000 UAH. We receive payments as internally displaced persons. We have 4 children: Evelina is 19 years old, Riyana is 14 years old, Feride is 6 years old, and Muhammed is 2 years old. We are most afraid of not returning home, that the war continues for a long time and we will have to live permanently in another city.