Marharyta Hranovska from Severodonetsk
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Good afternoon! The video is in darkness because there is often no power nowadays. We live in Kyiv now. At the beginning of the war, we lived in the town of Severodonetsk. On February 24, we woke up calmly and planned to go to work. But the explosions started. They started bombing the airport near us. My children (3 and 6 years old) and I went to the village to live with a nanny because we had a house with a basement. We decided that we would be safer there. Unfortunately, in 5 days this village was occupied. The worst thing is that we were cut off from everything. We couldn’t get back to the city because the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defending it. It was scary during the occupation because the artillery was constantly placed near us, shelling Severodonetsk. We did not know what to expect from people who were constantly drunk, there was no green corridor out of the occupation. We took a chance and left. The only way to leave the occupied territory was through the Russian Federation. So we went through Luhansk, then Moscow, Belarus, Poland, and now we are back in Ukraine. Before the war, we had our own business, a medical laboratory, and a clinic, which we rebuilt for the second time after 2014. In 2014, our city of Luhansk was occupied and we had to move to Severodonetsk. This time we lost everything again. Everything we had been rebuilding for 8 years remained in the occupied territory. Our office was hit by a rocket and is no longer there. Here in Kyiv, we gave birth to our third child. I am on maternity leave, and my husband works. We plan to stay in Ukraine, it is our land. Our children were born here and we will do everything to rebuild the country after our victory.