WEBVTT - Made with VTT Creator 00:05.365 --> 00:18.383 position:50% align:middle For me, the war... I cannot speak. The war drove like a tank through my family, through my soul. From the very first days, even from the very first day, 00:18.383 --> 00:25.165 position:50% align:middle my son went to the military registration and enlistment office. There was a very long queue for two days, and he stayed there for two days. 00:25.165 --> 00:41.161 position:50% align:middle Then he was in Kaharlyk territorial defence forces. Since May, he has been in the East. Bakhmut, Soledar, Avdiivka have passed through his life. 00:41.161 --> 00:58.484 position:50% align:middle Avdiivka was a nightmare. Then Vuhledar and Pokrovsk. He was covered in a trench somewhere, he was digging out. Then his friend was killed nearby. 00:58.484 --> 01:13.612 position:50% align:middle While he was pulling out the 300s, his friend was torn to pieces, and he became... If a person is torn to pieces, it is considered that the person is gone. 01:13.612 --> 01:24.601 position:50% align:middle It was a very big loss for him. My other son, the eldest, went to the front a year later, and now he is somewhere in the Kupiansk direction. 01:24.601 --> 01:39.279 position:50% align:middle How they bombed our warehouses... They bombed so loudly that we could hear it too. Otherwise, it’s calm so far. If only God would grant us peace here... 01:39.279 --> 01:51.979 position:50% align:middle The shelling is more intense in the north of Kyiv, in the east. I have been volunteering since 2015, 2014-2015. I was still working at the time, 01:51.979 --> 02:03.792 position:50% align:middle and there was a centre set up at the school. People brought a lot of things there. We sent them to different destinations, and volunteers came to collect them. 02:03.792 --> 02:12.901 position:50% align:middle Oleksandr Vasylovych, we are grateful to him... Once they came and said: “The guys want lard, and they don’t have any sugar”. 02:12.901 --> 02:21.544 position:50% align:middle I called Oleksandr Vasylovych. He asked me how many tins of lard they needed, and I didn’t know what to tell him. I said: “Maybe 20-30 jars”. 02:21.544 --> 02:30.471 position:50% align:middle I called the volunteers and they said: “As many as they give us,” so they loaded the car with 3-litre jars. I asked how much sugar they needed, how many bags. 02:30.471 --> 02:38.916 position:50% align:middle I thought they would give us 1-2 bags, but they probably brought 5 or 6 bags. People were very helpful back then. Now, somehow... 02:38.916 --> 02:49.128 position:50% align:middle I don’t know why it happened. Maybe people are used to it. We have a guy named Samborskyi, he works at a farm in Shyrokostup. 02:49.128 --> 03:03.678 position:50% align:middle Every Monday he brings a bag here. He puts lard in the bag. He buys it and mixes it with garlic. He brings the goodies to the boys, and he does it every Monday. 03:03.678 --> 03:16.300 position:50% align:middle The other girls collect baskets and buy something. The boys love the goodies. They asked us for seeds. Oleksandr Vasylovych gave me two bags of seeds, 03:16.300 --> 03:28.070 position:50% align:middle the girls roasted them and then packed them into bags and sent them off. It’s the same with sweets. Or the boys ask for lard. 03:28.070 --> 03:34.502 position:50% align:middle Oleksandr Vasylovych asks how much lard they need. I thought to ask for 2-3 kilograms, but he somehow gave me 21 kilograms. 03:34.502 --> 03:47.909 position:50% align:middle What to do with it? Our eyes went wide. So we cut it into pieces, and the guys called Ania the volunteer and thanked us for the lard. 03:47.909 --> 03:59.136 position:50% align:middle And we have done this several times. Oleksandr Vasylovych gives us a lot: 10, 20 kilos of lard. And we send it. And from home – onions, garlic. 03:59.136 --> 04:11.568 position:50% align:middle We could send canned food, but we can’t because it breaks on the way. From the dry stuff, we bring sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds. 04:11.568 --> 04:28.495 position:50% align:middle Today I brought 2 packages... Somewhere in Dubno, they make motanka dolls, and they need all kinds of ribbons and scraps. 04:28.495 --> 04:40.492 position:50% align:middle So I spent two days sorting through it, bringing ribbons and all sorts of things. I immediately looked up on the Internet what they use to make them and brought them. 04:40.492 --> 04:48.415 position:50% align:middle I asked them what they needed. They didn’t need potatoes. Whatever we have at home... With the pension we always buy sweets, because 04:48.415 --> 05:03.097 position:50% align:middle the boys love them, and Mivina. When we go to Kaharlyk, we buy it, because we know where Mivina is cheap. We also buy 3-in-1 coffee and send it too. 05:03.097 --> 05:14.357 position:50% align:middle When everything is brought, we pack it all up. I believe in victory so much and I’m waiting for it! I am so afraid of dying and 05:14.357 --> 05:22.520 position:50% align:middle not seeing it – only God knows! I pray [for this] every morning, every evening.