The war took away a dear person from Aksiniia – her brother. He was killed during one of the shellings in Kharkiv when he went to buy food with their mother. During the explosion, he covered their mother with his body.

Aksiniia has learnt to live with this pain. And to move on. Her brother remains her hero to this day. It was to him that she dedicated her essay, with which she won the competition organised by the Museum of Civilian Voices founded by the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation.

It is her brother who inspires her to develop, support her mother and plan her future. The girl dreams of becoming a philologist.