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We never left – not for a single day, not for a single minute. All this time we have been in Kharkiv because we happen to have a grandmother who, unfortunately, 

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cannot walk or understand everything that is happening around her. So she kept us in our house. On the first day, I, like all children, probably, hoped to go to school 

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and asked my parents if it was possible or necessary. Of course, it was very scary, and my parents were really thinking about moving, but, given all the circumstances, 

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it didn’t work out. That’s why I have been living at home for all these 3 years. Every explosion, every strange sound, every news, every event that was related 

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to either my family or my friends – all of this had a great impact on me, and that’s what I consider the most frightening. The fact that I felt it all, and it was always scary. 

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First of all, I feel like I grew up too fast and too much, like I shouldn’t have when I was 13 or 12. What has changed? I wouldn’t say that the changes are big, because 

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I was at home all this time. But I feel like I’ve lost something that I should always have with me. It’s my friends, it’s my school life, it’s calm, normal walks around the city centre, 

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without the fear that I could die at any moment and that I can’t do anything about it. It’s a constant fear that my life, the lives of my loved ones, could end.

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In fact, it’s so interesting that I have no idea what profession I want to connect my life with, but I know for sure that I am interested in volunteering.

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I would really like to develop in it, because I feel that I want to, I have to help people. And even if this help is not so significant, I will still feel that I am contributing 

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to the future of Ukraine and the future of the Ukrainians I can help. I decided to take part in the essay contest from the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation because in fact,

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during these 1,000 days, I have never described everything that happened to me. I love to write, I enjoy it. And I have written about many things: 

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about my own emotions, and about some fictional characters. But to sit down and write about everything that happened during the full-scale invasion, 

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during this war, I’ve never done that before. So I saw this competition as an opportunity to express my feelings and emotions.