WEBVTT - Made with VTT Creator 00:05.695 --> 00:21.052 position:50% align:middle We didn't think it would be so terrible. They didn't bomb us too much at first, we lived as long as we could, then every day they threw more and more bombs, 00:21.052 --> 00:42.899 position:50% align:middle until my house was smashed. My soul must have sensed my grief, but I didn't know what. In the evening, I was anxious: Oh, God, I think, what's wrong, I can't sleep. 00:42.899 --> 00:58.419 position:50% align:middle I had been awake for 10 hours, and it was hot, because it was August. I just opened my eyes, and there was a bang, all the frames and glass flying, all over me. 00:58.419 --> 01:12.140 position:50% align:middle I prayed and thought what was happening. I feel blood running down my face. Then I remembered that I needed to check where the blood was flowing first. 01:12.140 --> 01:22.441 position:50% align:middle . I didn't feel any pain, whether it was from shock, I don't know, it didn't hurt, just blood was flowing and my T-shirt was wet. 01:22.441 --> 01:34.350 position:50% align:middle I think they said that they needed to block the artery to stop the blood flow, to stop it right away. I got up, I couldn't walk. I thought the frames were from the window, 01:34.350 --> 01:49.500 position:50% align:middle and then the glass was stuffed. I started to climb. I climbed over one frame, the second frame, and reached the sink. I have a bucket there, I washed my face, washed my hair, 01:49.500 --> 02:06.449 position:50% align:middle and found it. It was dark, I couldn't see anything, we had no electricity or gas for a long time. The darkness was scary. I took it out by feeling - I know where I have towels 02:06.449 --> 02:14.465 position:50% align:middle hanging on the door to prevent the door from slamming, so I tied it up. I took it out, applied it, and thought: what should I do? They say I should sit down. 02:14.465 --> 02:31.543 position:50% align:middle I think they might throw more. Sit in the corner, not near the windows, so that the glass doesn't fly. I found a place in the pantry and sat down. What else could I expect? 02:31.543 --> 02:52.607 position:50% align:middle I heard explosions, gunshots, and some light shone through from the pantry to the veranda. I sat there and thought: I couldn't just sit there, I had to do something. 02:52.607 --> 03:04.735 position:50% align:middle My rag was already wet, so I threw it away and took another one and put it to my head. Thank God, it was not more than that. It cut the skin on my head, 03:04.735 --> 03:19.921 position:50% align:middle but it was a minor injury, thank God. Then I put the other one down. Then I go out to the veranda to the door. The door is bent, twisted, I can't open it. 03:19.921 --> 03:37.262 position:50% align:middle I was pulling it and couldn't open it, but it was paneled, so I kicked it with my foot, broke it out and thought, thank God. I got out backwards. I went out, and as a sin, 03:37.262 --> 03:51.642 position:50% align:middle I left the gate unlocked, which I never did, and who knows what happened. When a soldier stands at the gate: «Grandma, are you alone?» I said: «Yes, I'm alone». 03:51.642 --> 04:04.656 position:50% align:middle He said: «Let's go». I said: «There is a barn on fire, we need to call the fire brigade». He said that they had called, but they said that they did not come at night. 04:04.656 --> 04:19.266 position:50% align:middle Then I went to the neighbours who lived nearby, called out, but he did not come out. I went to a checkpoint nearby. I told the soldier about the situation 04:19.266 --> 04:34.451 position:50% align:middle and he said that we had called and a fire truck would come. I looked - there was light and cars on my side. I went there again. When the men came together, no one slept, 04:34.451 --> 04:49.025 position:50% align:middle because it was a shooting range and a guided bomb for sure. The neighbour's house was completely destroyed, just rubbish, and my roof was smashed 04:49.025 --> 05:08.442 position:50% align:middle and everything was blown into the house with the frames. I went to my yard. When the men who live there came together and said that the fire truck would be there soon. 05:08.442 --> 05:20.470 position:50% align:middle The guys started shining their flashlights [to] collect me. Natasha, a neighbor, came. I asked her to pack my bags, because I needed to take my documents 05:20.470 --> 05:40.478 position:50% align:middle and at least something with me. They went with Natasha and put 2 bags of clothes for me what they could find. Then a fire truck came and put out the fire. 05:40.578 --> 05:55.799 position:50% align:middle One barn burned down, and the other barns were half burnt. We went to the checkpoint, they called an ambulance, and I said I would not go. Why would I go? 05:55.799 --> 06:12.489 position:50% align:middle I said that when it dawned, I would take a bus and pour hydrogen peroxide on it. When the ambulance arrived, the military arrived. 06:12.489 --> 06:26.325 position:50% align:middle He looked at me and told me to get in the car. They looked at me and took me to Kirov, where they treated my wound and sent me to Zaporizhzhia. 06:26.325 --> 06:40.967 position:50% align:middle I stayed for 10 days until the stitch was removed, and then I went [home] because my potatoes were not harvested in the garden. They throw and throw bombs. 06:40.967 --> 07:00.906 position:50% align:middle Natasha and I raked out the glass in two bedrooms, took out all the broken glass, put a mattress, but I didn't sleep a wink because of the noise, the flying bombs, the light. 07:00.906 --> 07:15.190 position:50% align:middle I said: «Natasha, I feel bad, I'm dizzy». I take pills, but nothing helps. She says it's my blood pressure, she's right, because I haven't slept for two nights. 07:15.190 --> 07:38.734 position:50% align:middle On that day, 19 [August], on Savior's Day, we picked onions. I said: «Natasha, do whatever you want, because I'm going to die here». I need to go to Zaporizhzhia, 07:38.734 --> 07:48.045 position:50% align:middle because at least there they will give me some help, but here I don't have any pills. We can see that our people have no strength. 07:48.045 --> 08:04.056 position:50% align:middle They have attacked Orikhiv several times in the past two years, and our guys have been fighting back.Now we see that our guys have nothing to fight back with, 08:04.056 --> 08:14.120 position:50% align:middle and the battle is so hard to believe that it's the second time. And the second time, you think it's impossible that they will take it.