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On February 24, we were at home, lying in bed in the morning. My eldest daughter ran to us and said: "Mum, I'm not going to school today because the news says that the war has started". We didn't understand at first. We thought:

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"We have a military man, and [he] is at home." But when he picked up the phone, he saw a lot of messages and missed calls. When the phone rang, he immediately snapped, literally in a second. I've never seen anything like that before. In a second, he ran out without explaining anything.

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Later, somewhere around lunchtime, he called me and told me that war had broken out. I could not understand how it was possible to allow such bloodshed to take place in the twenty-first century. Because when I turned on the news, I saw rockets being fired at cities. And then...

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We have a huge training ground in Starychi near Novoyavorivsk, and it was shelled. A lot of people were killed. We were so shocked then! Our windows were blown out by the [blast] wave. My children and I were hiding. This is such a fear - for a lifetime! It's even impossible to put into words.

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I didn't know what to do, where to go. I was so confused! I saw my children, and it was all over... But Volodya corrected all our actions. He immediately called me and told me to pack my things: documents and everything I needed for myself and my children. He said he would call my parents and they would take me to their village.

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They have a remote village with a few houses. We will sit there and wait for him to return. When I asked: "How long will the war last?" Volodya said: "If we become united now, we will quickly wipe them out, and the war will be over in three months." Later, on April 13, when I received his last call,

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he said that the war would last for a very long time and would be a war of attrition. That was it. There are no weapons, no people. Everything is very bad. Unfortunately, at the beginning, the guys went to defend our land with their bare hands. The authorities did not take care of how and with what people went to defend it;

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there was no provision. A week later, we moved to Haiky-Sytenski, his native village, where he was born. It's a village in the middle of the forest, and I'm not even sure if the siren goes on there. He is buried in the neighbouring village of Sitne. So many lives, so many cripples, so many broken destinies, so many children without fathers!

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Not only without a father but also without a mother. There are so many orphans! The war can only end in victory. I just know it. I believe in it. I have Ukrainian blood in my veins. I know for sure that Ukrainians are an unconquerable people.

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They have always wanted to conquer us: our Cossacks, in the First World War and the Second World War. They mocked the Ukrainian people, but we never submitted. And now we will not fall to our knees either. We will stand with courage. Because the wives of the heroes and their children remained here to cover the rear,

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and they are now helping the guys on the front line in every way they can. In particular, my children and I help them a lot: we are assembling drones, night vision devices, and batteries.

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We send everything we can to the guys on the front line. And the guys whom my husband saved consider it an honour... They will not retreat until there is victory. Never. They gave me their word.