In March 2022, I left for Kramatorsk with my children and dogs. My apartment and belongings remained there, and I cannot return because my brother is a military man and I have a travel ban. My apartment has already been privatized by the occupiers and given to someone "as needed". All those who did not attend the local elections lost their homes. I have no husband, I am a single mother for all my children.

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I also had a daughter, in 2020, at the age of 3, who died of anaphylactic shock due to a doctor's mistake. They hid the fact of her death from me for almost a day, did not give me the documents, and ignored my appeals and complaints that the diagnosis was wrong. For 4 years now, I have not been able to get over it, I cannot let go of this loss. Immediately after my daughter's death, I got a dog, they say you can't do that, but I really needed it. In 9 months, my mother died of breast cancer. She refused to be treated because of her distrust of doctors.

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Now I live on social benefits and the scholarship of my older sons who are studying. One in Sloviansk, the other in Kramatorsk. I spent all my savings when we left Syvaske, I had to pay $3,000 for each of them. So in Kramatorsk, I didn't even have money to buy a cup or spoon - I had to help whoever I could, and payments were delayed for more than three months, it was very difficult. I love dogs like children, I can't give them away, I rescued one of them from terrible conditions - they gave it away for a pack of cigarettes. She was beaten up, thin, with wounds from a crazy number of fleas, and her favorite food is still dry bread. Her younger son loves her very much, he even learns to walk with her.

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