My family lived near Lyman in Donetsk region. My mother, my two sons and my grandfather and grandmother. My youngest son, 5 years old, has a disability - he does not have one ear. Grandfather was born in 1937, grandmother was born in 1939. When the war came, my grandfather and grandmother flatly refused to evacuate. They said that they would stay in their house until the end. And so it happened.

On the night of May 12-13, hell broke out in our village - Russian troops shelled us non-stop. We hid in the basement of our aunt's house. My mother could no longer visit herelderly parents. I called the police and asked them to evacuate us. On theevening of May 13, the police took us away in an armored car. The police promised to return for our grandparents the next day. But the rocket hit their house and they burned. Their remains were found by Ukrainian soldiers as late as November 2022, and they buried them.

We got to Kramatorsk first, then to Pokrovsk, then to Dnipro. We were evacuated without any personal belongings - there was no place for this. In a village in the Dnipropetrovsk region, the local community offered us an abandoned old house. This is where we live. My home with my mother and children was also destroyed. We have nowhere to go back. 

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