Volodymyr Dotsenko from Mariupol
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Good afternoon. My name is Vladimir, I am from Mariupol. I have a son, he is 8 years old. When the war started on February 24, the city was heavily shelled. Then on March 2, the power, water and communication went out, it was impossible to do anything, to call anyone, I was very scared for my child. Then 3 days later, the gas went out, and we had to cook over a fire. We got water as best we could by going to the spring. Then, when it snowed, we started to melt the snow, because it was impossible to move around the city, because there was shelling everywhere, it was scary because we walked around the city and people were lying like this, dead people who could have had their limbs torn off. We were all cooking together. Shops were looted, pharmacies – everything…. and it was very dangerous to walk around the city. Sometimes people went to the spring to get water and never returned. I also went there, but it was very dangerous, so they started to collect water from the snow because of the shelling, drowned the snow and drank this water, and even cooked with it.
It was very cold in the basement, and my child started having problems. When we managed to get out of that horror in Zaporizhzhia, we went for a medical examination and the child was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Now I live in the city of Kolomyia. It is very difficult to pay for the apartment and utilities. I ask for your help because it is very difficult to work. It is difficult to find a job.
I have not applied to international organizations, I am applying for the first time because it has become very difficult, I ask for your help because I do not know what to do, it has become very difficult for me, I will be grateful to you from the bottom of my heart.