WEBVTT - Made with VTT Creator 00:00.516 --> 00:18.980 position:50% align:middle As for you personally, forgive me, have you felt the impact of these stresses, this horror, maybe even depression since the beginning of the full-scale invasion? 00:18.980 --> 00:36.008 position:50% align:middle Because I know your story, how you saved your family from Bucha, how you were getting prepared, how you evacuated your children, your wife, so, accordingly, 00:36.008 --> 00:48.711 position:50% align:middle you could not have been in a balanced state. On the contrary, it would have been an unhealthy reaction. Then what kept you going when you were in that horror? 00:48.711 --> 00:53.915 position:50% align:middle You probably still remember those moments, right? 00:53.915 --> 01:12.436 position:50% align:middle I’m sure I was holding on with adrenaline and glucose, because I didn’t want to eat anything. We have a petrol station nearby. And there was a message on TV to stock up on food. 01:12.436 --> 01:23.716 position:50% align:middle I sent my family right away, on the day the war started. At 5 a.m., as soon as it started and we started to hear everything in Hostomel rumbling, I sent them abroad. 01:23.716 --> 01:35.817 position:50% align:middle I stayed behind to defend the house, not knowing what was coming, and I stocked up on sweets because I realised that I would need glucose if there was no food or electricity. 01:35.817 --> 01:46.034 position:50% align:middle . I also stocked up on fuel, and on adrenaline and stress, I was waiting for further instructions from the state on what to do and where to go next. 01:46.034 --> 01:55.256 position:50% align:middle How long did you stay? One, two, three... On the third day, I left with my brother. And during these three days you were doubly terrified, 01:55.256 --> 02:01.568 position:50% align:middle because you personally found yourself in the very centre of hell, you can say that, and you should say that. 02:01.568 --> 02:08.683 position:50% align:middle There were also thoughts and worries about whether your [family] had made it or not. 02:08.683 --> 02:18.097 position:50% align:middle I didn’t know what was happening on the road at all. I only understood what was being transmitted to me on the phone – information about the horrors on the roads. 02:18.097 --> 02:28.836 position:50% align:middle Personally, when I was leaving, I wanted to return to Kyiv because I had a surgery scheduled and patients were hospitalised. But the bridge had already been blown up, 02:28.836 --> 02:39.587 position:50% align:middle and I could not go through Bucha or Stoianka. My only option was to move towards Zhytomyr. I packed my dog in the car, my brother put our other dog in his car, 02:39.587 --> 02:53.047 position:50% align:middle and we drove in two cars past the infantry fighting vehicles of these monsters, surprisingly. Because the cars that turned left were all shot there. 02:53.047 --> 03:01.940 position:50% align:middle And the people from the neighbouring street who just drove towards the supermarket... You may remember these shots where they [the occupiers] are standing 03:01.940 --> 03:06.366 position:50% align:middle and shooting at cars from behind the supermarket, from behind the air conditioners. We also wanted to go that way, 03:06.366 --> 03:16.538 position:50% align:middle but for some reason we thought it would be better to go “head-on” and let it happen. But God led you away? He did. He saved us. 03:16.538 --> 03:27.976 position:50% align:middle Do you often remember those moments now? I try not to, I try to stay positive. Because when you work with difficult patients who have cancer, 03:27.976 --> 03:36.877 position:50% align:middle believe me, they have so much stress, so much trouble, so much suffering that they definitely do not need a doctor who is also stressed. 03:36.877 --> 03:50.084 position:50% align:middle What they need is a doctor who will encourage them, fight for them, and do so in an uplifting spirit. It’s important for patients. For patients, it is very important what emotional state a doctor is in. 03:50.084 --> 04:03.664 position:50% align:middle And even considering the fact that you support yourself and, accordingly, the necessary level of vitamins, because you have to do it, because 04:03.664 --> 04:14.688 position:50% align:middle you are a conscious person and have such opportunities... But I am absolutely sure that there are still thoughts and memories that you cannot disown even with a great desire, 04:14.688 --> 04:22.949 position:50% align:middle and one way or another they automatically appear in your memories, in your memory, perhaps even unexpectedly. 04:22.949 --> 04:41.180 position:50% align:middle Yes. That night before the war, when we sat down and discussed what we were going to do. Then martial law was introduced... Or it was a state of emergency at first... 04:41.180 --> 04:48.723 position:50% align:middle [We were] thinking about what we would do. But there would be no war! What war? Maybe something will start somewhere in the East, but there will be no war here. 04:48.723 --> 05:03.410 position:50% align:middle And I made an absolutely unalterable decision very quickly, within 5 minutes, when it all started, to evacuate my family. In five minutes. 05:03.410 --> 05:11.928 position:50% align:middle I was incredibly surprised at those people who had the opportunity to evacuate and lost their families. Those who were also in Bucha, who could have done it, 05:11.928 --> 05:23.624 position:50% align:middle but for some reason did not make this risky but quick decision. And this is where surgery helped me. 05:23.624 --> 05:33.237 position:50% align:middle It’s always like that in surgery: you have to make a quick decision that you think is right. And I am making the right decision here. 05:33.237 --> 05:53.579 position:50% align:middle Is it possible to get rid of terrible memories with the help of vitamins? This question may sound strange, but it seems to me that now we have to grasp at any 05:53.579 --> 06:14.310 position:50% align:middle straw to save our nervous system, protect it and really try to put ourselves in a kind of cocoon of self-preservation. 06:14.310 --> 06:32.365 position:50% align:middle This is the cocoon. The right concentration of vitamins in the body is a cocoon from mental stress. You know, we are saturated with information. 06:32.365 --> 06:44.125 position:50% align:middle We are oversaturated with information, we get it from different sources. You and I are not apolitical. We follow politics, we follow what is happening in the country. 06:44.125 --> 06:56.005 position:50% align:middle Personally, I communicate with politicians, I communicate with the military who are on the front line, and sometimes there is such an imbalance that also causes me mental stress. 06:56.005 --> 07:08.093 position:50% align:middle Because I don’t understand: Some people tell me one thing, and others say something completely different. It is impossible to be in an absolute cocoon now. It is simply impossible. 07:08.093 --> 07:19.170 position:50% align:middle You can reduce the amount of time you spend watching news feeds, but one way or another, you live in it. Personally, I find it difficult. I tried it. I thought if I watched less [news], 07:19.170 --> 07:27.057 position:50% align:middle something would change. No. On the contrary, I am more worried then. I have to read the news, find out what is happening at the front. There are brigades there 07:27.057 --> 07:35.051 position:50% align:middle with whom we communicate. They write back somewhere. Right now, by the way, I’m looking for a car, I’m begging for one, because I have to buy it quickly, I want to buy a car quickly. 07:35.051 --> 07:44.261 position:50% align:middle Because the military have absolutely nothing to drive around in. They have some rat rod that is about to break down, and there is no support for this brigade. 07:44.261 --> 07:56.245 position:50% align:middle They said they don’t have enough money. The guys who brought me the car are already serving. They went to serve, and now I can’t find people to bring me a car from abroad. 07:56.245 --> 08:07.421 position:50% align:middle So this stress is only getting worse. Because I’m asked, and I’m ready, I have the opportunity, I want to, but I don’t have the means to do it. I mean people. 08:07.421 --> 08:16.389 position:50% align:middle So, by the way, if anyone has such contacts, please let me know. If someone is engaged in transporting cars from abroad to Ukraine, I would be happy to buy a few cars for our military. 08:16.389 --> 08:29.237 position:50% align:middle Please write it in the comments. Anton Shkiriak will look at these comments and will definitely look for the comment that Anton has just asked you to make among all 08:29.237 --> 08:43.720 position:50% align:middle your thoughts that you leave under this video. If indeed you have such an opportunity. Since the start of the full-scale invasion, what have your patients taught you? 08:43.720 --> 09:02.605 position:50% align:middle I was surprised at how much my patients started to support my fundraising, because for the first 3 months it was a purely volunteer work. I left medicine, you could say, 09:02.605 --> 09:15.916 position:50% align:middle like everyone else, in principle, left their professions at that time. We were like one big fist called Ukraine. I did volunteering, I made arrangements with my friends from abroad, 09:15.916 --> 09:26.054 position:50% align:middle and I had many patients who were ambassadors of different countries in Ukraine. I contacted them, and we transported a huge amount of humanitarian aid. 09:26.054 --> 09:37.965 position:50% align:middle We sent it to the East, we sent it to Kyiv. Medicines, bandages, heaters, sleeping bags. In short, we did everything we could do. And I was surprised that... 09:37.965 --> 09:52.122 position:50% align:middle I remember the names of my patients, give or take, 7-8 thousand of them a year. And I saw that one patient sent, another... 100 hryvnias, 20, 50, 200 hryvnias, 1,000... 09:52.122 --> 10:02.296 position:50% align:middle You, by the way, were not my patient, but you also sent a huge amount at the beginning of the war. I remember, I will never forget it. Everyone had to do it. 10:02.296 --> 10:12.935 position:50% align:middle Absolutely. I realised then that my patients were not just people who came to get a service and that was it. 10:12.935 --> 10:26.922 position:50% align:middle They are, let’s say, relatives. It’s really a small, my own... Let’s call it that: it’s my own private army. 10:26.922 --> 10:43.523 position:50% align:middle Every story like this is a pain that we have to remember. Pain that the world should know and remember. We need to record these stories so that they can later 10:43.523 --> 10:57.692 position:50% align:middle serve as additional evidence during the trial in The Hague against russia for the crimes it is still committing on the territory of independent Ukraine. 10:57.692 --> 11:04.631 position:50% align:middle This story will definitely be included in the world’s largest archive of testimonies of civilian Ukrainians affected by the war, the Museum of Civilian Voices founded 11:04.631 --> 11:18.557 position:50% align:middle by the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation. If you also have such a story and are ready to share it, or the story of your loved ones, 11:18.557 --> 11:30.516 position:50% align:middle you can visit the Museum’s website or call the free hotline at 0800509001.