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“We stayed in the basement for 21 days. There was so much rumbling that the ground shook beneath us”
Tetiana Kovalchuk faced the war twice in her native Lysychansk. In 2014, the battle for the city lasted two months. At the end of July, the AFU took it back. Heavy battles for the city started since the onset of the full-scale invasion. Tetiana hoped that it will end soon but on the third day of the war, she moved to the basement, where she spent more than three weeks. During this period, she saw people die and buildings being destroyed. Her house took two hits. And once the shell hit right under her house, and the pieces of the shell killed her two neighbors who were in the basement with her. The Kovalchuk family moved from the city before it was occupied. And on the third of July, Lysychansk was under Russian control, which was the last unoccupied big city in the Luhansk region.
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