Tetyana Klevets from Odesa
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The full-scale war began on February 25, 2022. It was horrible. When my children and I went to school/kindergarten, we didn’t know what was happening. A neighbor shouted: “Where are you taking the children? Quickly take them from the street to the house!” We rent an apartment. I quickly took the children back to the apartment. My daughter undergoes a vision treatment every 3 months. She was in treatment just then. The husband went to work, but it was closed. The director did not tell him anything. Everything was closed. There was a loud alarm, and shots were heard. I went to pick up my daughter from the sanatorium. She called me, cried, and said, “Mom, we were told that the war had started and that all the children should be taken away by their parents.” I took my daughter home. We collected documents and things in a backpack. People were running somewhere, running away. Everyone fled abroad. But we could not. We were born here, and so were our parents, many of my loved ones died, and they went through the war. I have a grandmother who is 94 years old, we still haven’t told her that there is a war in the country, because we are afraid for her condition. The husband was unemployed for 3 months. We sold everything we could. We are in a rented apartment, we pay for the rent because there is no place to live. There is no work. The husband after the operation is not taken anywhere. Now there are temporary part-time jobs, but they are barely enough for food. Rather, this horror would end.
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