Olena Bondar from Kherson
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Hello, we are a family from Kherson, we are IDPs. Now we live in the Khmelnytsky region, in the village of Kochubeev, in a shelter for IDPs, because we cannot rent a house.
On the day the war broke out, we could not recover from the shock we experienced for a long time. We could not believe it.
We had already moved from Crimea in 2014, sold our house there for half the price and started building a new house in Kherson.
Our lives changed a lot because the occupation came very quickly, and we could not leave Kherson because we did not have the money to do so. At that time, we were very patient, but we were just trying to survive. We knew that our troops would come and liberate our Kherson.
The most terrible moment of the beginning of the war was when a tank drove up to us, a tank was pointed at our sleeping place and we saw through the window that the Russian military were trying to get into our yard, they wanted to take my husband away, but we did not open the door. They stood there for a while, we were afraid they would shoot.
But thank God, everything was fine and they left.
The 2nd scariest moment was on November 22, when there were 2 arrivals to our house, we were sleeping.
The children woke up in horror, my son had a concussion, and his left ear still doesn’t feel normal.
It was very scary, our windows were flying at us and we were just in despair, and 3 days later we evacuated by evacuation train. Before the war, she worked as a math tutor.
On June 6, 2023, our house in Kherson was completely flooded, along with all our property, as a result of the flooding of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, we simply have nowhere to return to.
The world needs to hear about the pain and disorder that is happening to us. But for some reason, the world is just watching, and this war, this horror, continues.