Women in need

I was lying in the surgical department when the active shelling of my village began. Now there are terrible battles there, my house was destroyed. My husband died a long time ago, and my children do not keep in touch. I evacuated to Kharkiv.

My apartment is destroyed, the city is occupied. During an air strike on a neighboring house, a piece of wall hit me in the back. My legs are paralyzed if I walk for more than 5 minutes. We moved to Kostiantynivka because of the cheap rent and proximity to the front line. My only support now is my 13-year-old daughter.

In 2017, my husband was deported from Belarus to Ukraine, I went with him, gave birth to a child, and in 2023 he died as a volunteer in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Because of the war, it is almost impossible to obtain citizenship, so I and my child do not receive any payments for his death, and I cannot find a job. Returning to Belarus is even more difficult. And I don't want to go back there.

Our village is less than 10 kilometers from the front line. There is constant shelling and nowhere to hide. My brother was recently killed by shrapnel and I am left alone, a single mother with two children aged 4 and 13. I have a progressive pathology of my cervical vertebrae that sometimes leaves me paralyzed and unable to move, but I still try to work to feed my children.‍

We used to live on the right bank of Kherson, but after the de-occupation we left because there was no electricity and water. My husband left me with two children, a sick mother and a bedridden father. Two weeks after we left without our belongings, the Russians blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, our house was on the waterfront, only the walls remained. My father's entire leg was removed due to gangrene, and he died three days later.‍ Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

She moved with her parents and brother with a disability from Donetsk to the region in 2014, when the hostilities started. We had barely managed to set up our house when it burned down in March 2022, along with all our belongings. The Russian military took away all our food supplies, and my mother died of injuries upon arrival. Now we live in Poltava and barely make ends meet.