WEBVTT - Made with VTT Creator 00:05.381 --> 00:16.967 position:50% align:middle My name is Tetiana Zbinska. We actually came from Kyiv. I am from Kyiv, and my husband is from the Chernivtsi region. It so happened that we moved from Kyiv 00:16.967 --> 00:30.600 position:50% align:middle and started running our own farm. We have a farm called Zbinsky, and we raise turkeys. Our turkeys have been coming to us from Germany since 2009. 00:30.600 --> 00:47.048 position:50% align:middle But we also have children who grow lavender, walnuts, and hazelnuts. They also organized a school. They have a business - a children’s development center. 00:47.048 --> 01:00.087 position:50% align:middle This year I have another hobby: instead of a garden, as everyone else is used to, I have a chrysanthemum field. We are experimenters, we like to do things in a new way. 01:00.087 --> 01:16.284 position:50% align:middle We take it seriously. We are persistent. Because it happens that something doesn’t work out, there are some disadvantages. We learn from it. This is experience. 01:16.284 --> 01:25.635 position:50% align:middle If we don’t work and don’t have experience, we will have nothing to fight with. That’s why we do it somehow. We don’t have lavender here, so we decided to use lavender... 01:25.635 --> 01:33.418 position:50% align:middle Because it’s in France, which is far away. We got turkeys because no one wants to deal with them because they are a heavy bird that everyone is afraid of. 01:33.418 --> 01:42.067 position:50% align:middle But my husband is good at it. The same goes for blueberries. We have been growing blueberries for a long time. In general, we have 2.5 hectares, 01:42.067 --> 01:53.534 position:50% align:middle but everything is different completely different directions. When the full-scale invasion began, of course, we were all here, on the spot. And the children. 01:53.534 --> 02:10.355 position:50% align:middle It so happened that our children, and we were all there. That is, at that time the children were also not in Kyiv, but here. And the first explosions were something terrible, 02:10.355 --> 02:24.699 position:50% align:middle incredible. No one even expected that in our twenty-first century this would be possible at all. But I say that our people are persistent. At first, we were all worried, 02:24.699 --> 02:37.413 position:50% align:middle we were all shaking, we didn’t know what to do. But none of us left. The children have husbands, and I have a husband, and we all decided that our place is here. 02:37.413 --> 03:00.015 position:50% align:middle Because you need to raise turkeys, you need to feed people, you need to help and just support because at that time, I think, everyone was doing it. In every house, 03:00.015 --> 03:14.098 position:50% align:middle everyone was doing their job. Someone stood in the territorial defense, someone cooked, someone helped with the bedding. Or they did laundry, found some things for the children. 03:14.098 --> 03:28.101 position:50% align:middle We also did all this because we were worried about everyone. A lot of refugees stayed with us. We helped them. They spent the night with us. 03:28.101 --> 03:41.508 position:50% align:middle We fed them, calmed them down, and then they moved on, whoever decided to go where. When we began to realize that the fighting was very close, 03:41.508 --> 03:49.170 position:50% align:middle we realized that they needed our help. We also needed to feed them. At that time, we had turkeys, and we started cutting them for meat. 03:49.170 --> 04:08.037 position:50% align:middle We took our turkeys to our kindergarten in Stavyshche and the Brusyls to the hospital. The boys were also fed by 2 Brusyliv schools. That is, we would slaughter them, 04:08.037 --> 04:18.374 position:50% align:middle divide them into several days, and deliver them. Then we would slaughter again and deliver it. We were told how much [meat] we needed, for how many boys 04:18.374 --> 04:32.442 position:50% align:middle and [civilian] people because there were a lot of refugees here in Stavyshche. They were running away barefoot and hungry. In general, there were different moments. 04:32.442 --> 04:42.705 position:50% align:middle We observed absolutely everything because we have such a geolocation that we could see everything. We are on the side where everything is visible. 04:42.705 --> 04:52.490 position:50% align:middle We can see and hear everything. We have already begun to distinguish what is flying and where. We could tell where the departure was from and where the arrival was. 04:52.490 --> 05:05.814 position:50% align:middle We even counted the seconds and realized what was flying. We were scared. We were afraid not for ourselves, but for our children and grandchildren. 05:05.814 --> 05:18.924 position:50% align:middle Because at that time we had three grandchildren. One was 8, and the others were 1.5 and 2 years old, girls. And we were more worried about them because 05:18.924 --> 05:28.318 position:50% align:middle they listened to everything, they hid. And they often locked themselves up. Because they really... They look: “What is this?” And then they would stand there 05:28.318 --> 05:39.011 position:50% align:middle and it would make a noise. And it scared the children very much. But it’s okay. We continue to make stews and send them to our guys on the front line. 05:39.011 --> 05:53.479 position:50% align:middle We send it to them because it is a support for them. When they see that it’s really made with their own hands, and from turkey, but it’s not bought, not for money... 05:53.479 --> 06:12.653 position:50% align:middle It really came out that way. We still give a lot of them away. And it’s very cool. My husband also volunteers now. They send a lot of food. 06:12.653 --> 06:24.201 position:50% align:middle You can’t send meat, but you can send stew. He took part... From the beginning of the full-scale war, at the beginning of the invasion, they did... We had a friend, 06:24.201 --> 06:35.789 position:50% align:middle a good friend. Unfortunately, he is no longer with us. And they made a lot of flags. A lot of them. There is probably not a single military unit where there is not their flag. 06:35.789 --> 06:50.797 position:50% align:middle They did it together. But life happens so that everyone [in the family] has their own destiny. Someone goes into the world. God takes the best ones, just like on the front line, 06:50.797 --> 07:02.991 position:50% align:middle in our war. It’s very difficult, of course, to lose those guys, those friends with whom you communicated. This includes Felix Kurtanich. He is ours, our dear. 07:02.991 --> 07:20.039 position:50% align:middle He is the son of our friends. It is difficult. But it’s okay. We are Ukrainians, and we are invincible. They will not wait. We are persistent. And we will continue to work in the same way, 07:20.039 --> 07:32.712 position:50% align:middle because everything depends on us. How resilient we are, so much [stronger] support for the guys. I think so. And the children and grandchildren are watching this, watching this. 07:32.712 --> 07:45.769 position:50% align:middle I think it’s a good... It’s not a lesson, it can’t be called a lesson, but it’s a life experience. I think our children will know what war is and will appreciate life. 07:45.769 --> 07:57.792 position:50% align:middle Because our grandparents have already died, and there is no one to tell them about it. And we need to remember this so that our children can communicate freely. 07:57.792 --> 08:14.600 position:50% align:middle Because we are Ukrainians, we have it in us. We are smart, we are hardworking. And I think that few people are not involved in this now.