Yevheniya Momot from Kharkiv
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Good afternoon. We are my family, immigrants from the Kharkiv region, Kharkiv district, the village of Tsirkuny. our town has been under occupation since the first day of the war. On February 24, 2022, at 5 am, we heard explosions from the direction of Belgorod. when we went outside, we saw the shells in the sky. We realized that the war had started. we woke up our children. we have three boys: the eldest was 13 years old, the middle one was 8 years old and the youngest was 2 years old. We were very scared, so we woke the boys up, and I told the older ones to pack all their necessary things. We packed everything in one bag, took the documents, and put it all in the car. We decided to leave, but the first BMPs had already arrived on our street. We were very scared, we all hid in the cellar and we realized that we would not be able to leave. we were scared, we did not know what was waiting for us next. On February 24, at one o’clock in the afternoon, an air raid began on Kharkiv and the nearest villages. We went down to the cellar. then I only realized in the cellar that I had jumped out of the house without shoes and in just socks. By some miracle of God, we must have managed to leave Tsvirkuny. we were running at a very high speed, we did not know where we were going, then we decided that we would go to the village of Vlasivka in the Krasnohrad district. here we are now because we cannot return home even if the war ends. If our house was intact, we would probably have returned home by now, but our house is damaged, it is impossible to live in it, and there is no roof. missiles flew into our yard twice – once into the summer kitchen, where there are no walls, no windows; and the second time it flew into our house – there is no roof, no windows, no ceiling, so it is impossible to live there. so we have to stay here, unfortunately. we want to go home. We don’t work, sometimes my husband goes home and stays there to do some work on the house. And yet, there is no funding for our village for houses because the war is still going on.
