Tetiana is a doctor from Bakhmut with 48 years of medical experience. She worked as a therapist in a local outpatient clinic. “We helped people as much as we could,” she recalls. When in 2022 massive russian shelling began, Tetiana’s son insisted that the family leave the city.

The doctor’s house was destroyed, and her children’s apartments were too. In Volnovakha, during an enemy attack, her in-law was killed — a man who had survived two wars, in Chechnya and in Donbas. “He went on his motorcycle, and during the shelling he was killed. The russians killed him,” she says.

After evacuation, Tetiana did not leave her profession. Together with colleagues from Bakhmut, she resumed her work — first in the volunteer hub Center for Supporting Bakhmut Residents, and later in a new outpatient clinic in Kyiv. She receives displaced people, measures blood pressure, distributes medicines, and advises how to cope with loss. “We lost our home, our work, our loved ones. But we have to live on. I am a doctor — I cannot be otherwise,” she says.