I lived in Mariupol before the war. I have a disability of the 1-st group, I have been walking on crutches for 10 years. I have osteoporosis of the bones. This is anacquired disease. This disease is probably due to the explosion at Chernobyl -I was there just then and received a large dose of radiation. I stood in linefor joint replacement surgery. And then came the war.

On March 12, 2022, I was seriously injured in my apartment on the 5th floor. The shelling continued, a piece of shell flew in to my window. The blast wave threw me in to the corridor. I got a concussion, a brain injury, the glass cut my face. So I lay for a day.

A day later, my neighbors found me. They took me to a hospital where was one doctor, four nurses and almost no medicine. My face was sewn up, they tried to treat me. Later, my sister found me in the hospital. She and her husband were leaving the city and took me with them. Our old parents stayed in Mariupol. There is no connection with them.

Now I am in Odessa. I am blind in one eye. I need hip surgery.

‍