Yuliya M. from Vasylivka
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Due to possible threats to the security of this family, we chose to unpublish the images identifying the family. The family remains under occupation, and truly needs help.
Good day! My name is Yuliya M. We live in the Zaporizhzhya region. These are my children: Sofiya is 9 years old, Mariya is 3 years old, Artem is 7 years old, Mykola is 12 years old, and Angelina is 6 years old. We live at home since 24th, we have not left anywhere. On February 24, we woke up to shells and planes flying over our house. The children went to school that day but turned back. Our life has changed since then. It became difficult to live. The further, the worse. Since March, I have not received payments from the state and I do not know why. I was told that it is necessary to wait for the end of the war to find out the details. My husband lost his job, he worked as a baker. But the russians came here and sent everyone home, gave them their work records, and told them to go home. The worst thing is when the children are sitting in the basement, and the shells fly into your yard. I did not receive help from international funds. We cannot receive humanitarian aid, because no humanitarian cargo is allowed here from the Ukrainian side. Now we live, as we did before the war, in our village. I do not know what the future will be like in Ukraine. If we expel the russian occupiers from here, we will live even better than before. Maybe the children will at least continue their studies and will not be afraid. My biggest fear is that the war will be long. I want us to live in peace. The gas was cut off, the water is often turned off, and soon the electricity will be cut off too. We won’t even be able to cook food. Now we are already cooking food on the fire, so what will happen next, I don’t know. We can’t leave because they won’t let us out of here. The Ukrainians are allowed through, but the russian occupiers are not. The queues at their checkpoints are huge, they turn everyone back. They do not release us. Before the war, I was on maternity leave. I had to go to the labor exchange, and collected the necessary documents, in February I had to finalize the documents and go to work. The occupiers came and no one went anywhere. There is no work now. It’s hard to live. Thank you for your attention.