We lived inthe village of Ruska Lozova, Kharkiv Region. It is near the highway to Belgorod. We had our own home. Before the war, I worked as a manager in aperfume company. My husband used to work in the police. When the war started,he went to the front.

We left home in the first week of the war. At first we walked, then volunteers took us. We got to Poltava, lived there at school. Then we lived in different cities ofthe Poltava region. Now we live with people who gave us one room in theirapartment. We have nowhere to return to - our home has been completely destroyed by the war. It was a direct hit.

My husband first fought in the Kharkiv region. Then he went to Donetsk. In recent months, he fought near Bakhmut. He went missing in January 2023. His comrade-in-armscalled me and told me that my husband had gone on a mission and had notreturned. And that there is unconfirmed information that he died. My daughterand I have nothing and no one who could help.

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