In Mykolaiv, elderly people experienced huge stress during explosions. High blood pressure is life threatening for many people. Children saved their [elderly] parents and left the city for their sake. This is what the main character of this story did too.

We had been staying in Mykolaiv for three weeks and we came here the week after. The situation in Mykolaiv is very turbulent, that is why we decided to leave. In order to have a quieter and safer sleeping and living in general.

Mykolaiv is not as quiet as Ivano-Frankivsk. We have constant air raid warnings and often do not sleep at night. The outskirts of the city come under shelling and shellfire reaches even parts of the city itself. That is why we decided to leave. For now, we plan to be here. God willing, everything ends soon and we come back to Mykolaiv.

We hope to come back to our sweet home because we have everything there: our flat and our car. We left everything there.

And our work too. Everything is at home. That is why we do not plan to go outside of the country. We woke up at five o’clock in the morning to the sound of explosion. That is, we heard that an explosion thundered. That was at our Kulbakyne airfield. Well, you get used to bad things quickly. It so happened to us that in the last week there, we started to get used to explosions and slept with explosions heard in the background. I mean, it was the point when the nervous system began to get accustomed to it. Mum, just don’t cry. My mother has high blood pressure, so we decided to leave, as she had been taking a lot of sedative drugs there. For my mum’s sake, for my parents’ sake. I think that young people are able to endure all this, but I really feel sorry for my [elderly] parents. That is why we decided to move here.