Women in need

I live in a dormitory without gas in Verkhnodniprovsk. My husband died of a stroke, and in a month I need to have my thyroid gland removed because a certain amount of tumors prevent me from breathing, and it is progressing rapidly. I can't move around because of acute osteoarthritis, and my pension of 3,000 hryvnias goes to pay for the utilities of the dormitory.

When I was four months pregnant, my fiancé was killed in a shelling in Bakhmut, and almost all of our relatives were killed or disappeared. Our houses were destroyed to the ground. We moved to Dnipropetrovska oblast in mid-autumn 2022 because it was difficult for us to work due to our 11-month-old child and disabled parents who needed care.‍

Together with my husband, I worked at Azovstal, he died from shelling in hospital, and I barely managed to leave occupied Mariupol with my children. I have Parkinson's disease, and three months in the occupation under bombs and without the necessary medicines had a very bad impact on my physical condition, I am very limited in my movement and have difficulties with work.

We left for Kharkiv in the last evacuation in April 2022 from the already almost occupied Lysychansk, Luhansk region. We left with nothing but the clothes we were wearing and an elderly neighbor with a disability.‍

I currently live in Mykolaiv, recently survived cancer, suffered from domestic violence, and now my ex-husband is constantly threatening to destroy me and trying to take away my home, or rather what is left after the shelling.

I am single and childless, I evacuated from Bakhmut under shelling without my belongings to Svitlovodsk, Kirovohrad region. My house was destroyed, and my health, undermined by the war, does not allow me to work.