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I woke up and there was some fuss. The news told me everything. I did not understand, I cried all day, and then I calmed down. One or two days later, 

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the Russians started air strikes. The electricity and gas went out. Everything was switched off, and we went to the nearest village. 

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There was a forest there, it was washed by a river, and it was impossible to leave. We returned home at the end of April and started living at home. 

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Cluster bombs came and I was wounded in the head. There was a shelling in Izium, but it did not hit our house. But at 6 am, they came to our house.

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Cluster bombs flew down the street. One fragment hit me in the head, and I started crying because something was leaking into me and I couldn't understand anything. 

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The wound was treated with hydrogen peroxide, and we went to Kupiansk for the first time. There I received medical care. We also met people from Kupiansk

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and stayed with them for a while. And when I recovered, we did not return to Izium immediately, but after a while. We returned home and lived at home.

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Every day I had to have my head wound bandaged to prevent it from festering. It was not stitched up, it healed on its own. Because of the injury,

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I now have headaches and feel dizzy. We don't have a basement, so we were hiding in our neighbours' basement. It was loud. It didn't hit the city itself, 

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but we could hear something rattling and hitting something. Sometimes it did, and it was not so scary. We walked around the city with my aunt, 

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and she didn't understand where they were shooting. And I say it's not in the city. And it thunders further and closer. 

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Now I'm afraid of thunder because I think it's something flying. There was a time when it came to my city. It was when we were liberated. It happened. 

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But I didn't really get into it [such situations]. I drive and something flies there. I go again - and it flies again. I left and it came again.

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We recently had a hit on a house of culture, but there was no one there. When I was walking around Kupiansk with my friends and someone asked us something,

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we didn't want to answer them. And if we saw someone in uniform, we would immediately walk away. It was a bit scary.