11-year-old Yelyzaveta Heiko from Kherson remembers the first days of the war well. How they hid from russian tanks near their house. Later, the family left Kherson. They moved several times – first to Lviv, and now they live in Kyiv. Here, the girl continues her studies, takes up singing and learns Korean. But air raid alerts and shelling in the capital remind us that it is dangerous almost everywhere. Liza has a dream: to wait for the war to end and get a dog, which her family promised her before the invasion.

Liza told her story during the “Peaceful Rest for Children of Ukraine” programme in Zakarpattia, organised by the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation.