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‘People were buried near the hospital’

Tetiana Solohub is a nurse at the Borodianka hospital in the Kyiv Region. She remembers how people buried the dead near the hospital, how the apartment caught fire, and how she ran home past Russian tanks that were shooting at the entrances. Tatiana has nothing left. She continues to work and save money to improve her life.

‘People came to get some food and were deliberately shot at’

“The destruction was catastrophic. Houses, shops — everything was destroyed. The Lysychansk Regional Children's Hospital was shelled. Children were evacuated, but neither the hospital nor the ambulance worked” — Lysychansk (town in Luhansk Region) was already under Russian occupation in 2014 and is now experiencing the horrors of the “Russian world” once again.

‘Two enemy shells destroyed my house’

Maiia Mykytenko lived in the Kyiv Region in the village of Borodianka with her husband and two daughters. During enemy bombing, she and her neighbors hid in the basement. In the end, the family evacuated, and when Maiia returned, she found the apartment destroyed. Now, the family lives in a small room in a modular town.

‘Playing Russian roulette’ — a village head in the Kherson region captured by the occupiers

In the first weeks of the full-scale invasion, occupiers’ checkpoints were set up around the village of Osokorivka, and the Russian military themselves began to rob and intimidate the local population, — village head Serhii Kunets, who himself spent three weeks in a torture chamber, speaks about occupation.

Buried alive — memories of a writer from Borodianka

Valentyna Lysenko is a writer who has lived almost her entire life in Borodianka, in the Kyiv Region. Together with her family, she endured several air raids and miraculously survived. The woman recalls how people in the basement of a destroyed house nearby begged for help for five days, but the Russians forbade saving them.

‘People were sitting without a piece of bread; everyone was afraid to get near here’

Vitalii Koretskyi is a resident of the Kopyliv village in the Kyiv Region. He says that he mainly saw Buryats in the village. His neighbor died when, out of desperation, he tried to drive out through a mined field, and his nephew and friend were found shot with their hands tied.

A Russian shot at me from a helicopter — Stepan Boiarchuk, Zahaltsi village

The tiles in Stepan’s yard are riddled with bullet marks left by the Russian helicopter pilot. His property burned to the ground. Fortunately, the dog managed to survive the terrible burns. The Russians tortured his neighbor, Hryhorii, and eventually killed him, as well as two peaceful women who simply ran down the street.

‘A bomb was dropped from a plane! We were left without a roof over our heads...’

Olha Smykovska lives in the Kyiv Region in the village of Kopyliv. In the first days of the war, the Russians dropped an aerial bomb near the woman’s house. Olha’s son went to war to defend Ukraine and was seriously wounded. And then she lost her daughter.

‘The dog saved us...’

Tetiana Lukianenko is a resident of the village of Zahaltsi, Kyiv Region. A slab fell on a woman while she was hiding with her dog and son in a cellar during the bombing. The family moved to the summer pavilion when suddenly the Russians showed up.

‘During the evacuation, the Russians pointed machine guns at us’

Olena Atrashkova is a resident of the Kopyliv village in the Kyiv Region. The woman survived the occupation and witnessed the Russians breaking locks and robbing the post office. The shock wave knocked out the door to her house, and she, with the children, had to hide from the bombings with their neighbors. Olena says the worst thing was when nine Russians burst into the summer kitchen while she was there.

‘Mom died on the basement’s steps,’ — Mikhailo Ivanov, Mariupol

Mikhailo worked as a sound engineer at the Mariupol Drama Theater. He was seriously injured in his yard. In conditions of constant shelling and lack of electricity and medicine, Mariupol doctors managed to save Mikhailo’s leg. But there was no one to help his mother.

‘We had a Ukrainian flag hidden in our flat’ — Life in Izium under Russian occupation

Olha Myroshnychenko was born in Izium (Kharkiv Region). The young woman survived a six-month occupation of her home town. She says she always believed the enemy would run away. So she was not afraid to tell the Russians everything she thought about them.

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