Women in need

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.

I currently live in Kharkiv, my house in Kupiansk was destroyed in late May 2023. This is a frontline area, just 8 km from the border. There were four arrivals of Russian shells at the house, the last one damaged my leg so badly that I had to amputate it.