Yuliya Pysarenko from Kharkiv
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Good morning! My name is Yuliya Pysarenko. I am 36 years old. I have 3 children, 3 sons: 12 y.o., 9 y.o. and 9 months. On February 24, we woke up to the fact that our youngest son heard explosions. We are from Kharkiv. We were very scared and left for Zakarpattya. We have a family minibus. We left on it. I am disabled, my left leg is amputated and my musculoskeletal system is damaged. I am disabled in the second group. My biggest fear was that if I had to run away with my children, I simply wouldn’t be able to run. At that time, my prosthesis was already unusable. We went abroad. My husband was not allowed abroad because he is not the father of all 3 children. Later we had to pick him up when the law was changed and he could leave. I alone in the Czech Republic could not cope with 3 children without a prosthesis, one child is a newborn. The Czech Republic does not allow me to get a prosthesis, so we are raising money to buy one. Here it costs 4,000 euros. My children want to go home, but we can’t go back. I am afraid the most for my parents, who are in Kharkiv, my brothers and nephew also stayed there. We received help from UNICEF. I receive social benefits from Ukraine, about UAH 4,000 in total. The eldest son’s name is Bohdan, the middle one is Timur, and the youngest is Artem. I want the war to end and we can go home. I love Ukraine very much, we want to go home. The world needs to hear that we did not cause this war, we were attacked.