The war caught us in Mariupol - me, my husband and our two daughters. Now they are 15 and 4 years old. Mariupol is my hometown, I have lived there since birth. We had our own apartment there. Now it is half destroyed. My husband worked at the plant as atechnological engineer. And I worked in the public sector.

We fled from Mariupol at the end of March 2022. The city was bombarded furiously, we could not stay there. We didn't have a car, we just walked. A kind man was driving bycar, saw us and took us. He took us to Crimea. We lived there for three weeks. Then we started going to the unoccupied territory of Ukraine. We got to Zaporizhzhia, and from there to Oleksandria, Kirovohrad region.

In December 2022, my husband was drafted into the war. He got into the airborne assault troops, the so-called Yegers brigade. At the end of March 2023, he died near Avdiivka, Donetsk region. He was 37 years old.  We buried him in the Dnipro, our only relative lives here - my husband's brother. Now we live here with our daughters. We have not yet received payments from the state for the death of our husband and father. This is a long process, especially if you are a migrant and many documents are lost. I do not work because there is no place to leave my youngest daughter - kindergartens are not open. The eldest daughter is studying in college.