Maryna Moskalenko from Slovyansk
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When the war started, I was at home, I was preparing my children for school. My daughter and I were preparing a project, so my daughter was looking forward to Thursday. We woke up, like everyone else, from the explosions. We did not understand what was happening. Our life changed a lot after February 24, we lost confidence in tomorrow. We live one day and we don’t know what awaits us tomorrow, and what can happen even today, we read the news and watch what is happening in our town or in the towns where our loved ones live. Before the war, I worked at a machine-building plant in our town of Slovyansk. I loved my work very much. But now, due to the war, enterprises in our country are almost closed, this applies not to all, but many. The company I worked for remained in the town, it is now dangerous to be there, so almost all employees were forced to leave and remain without work. The scariest moment happened on the eve of our departure, we sat in the basement all night, and fighter planes flew over our house. For a long time, we thought that we would stay until the last in the town. We remember this night. We were sitting in the basement until 6 am, the noise from the fighter planes was very strong, and we constantly thought that a rocket would fly into our house. We thought we wouldn’t get out of there alive. We were very scared and left the town. My child was very afraid, she stopped sleeping, sirens sounded constantly, she cried and was very worried about her parents and her cat. When we left, we took the cat with us. We receive payments only as temporarily displaced persons. We do not receive any other payments, we did not receive help from either UNICEF or the Red Cross. We are given humanitarian aid in the form of food. Now we live in a rented house and therefore we are in a difficult financial situation. We believe in victory, we want everything to remain in Ukraine and we want to return to our native town, to continue living with confidence in tomorrow in our prosperous country.