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Tetiana Reznichenko lives in suburb of the Ukrainian capital. The first days of war were a living hell for its residents. Enemy artillery bombarded them. On 7 March a bomb was dropped on the building where Tatyana lived. Part of the block, from the ground up to the top floor was completely destroyed.

Olena Kulynovych lives in the Horenka suburb of the Ukrainian capital. An enemy shell landed right in her building. She left home for a short while but then came back. Today she is living there without light, water or gas.

Tamara Buhera lives in the village of Kozarovychi in the Kyiv Region. Her village was occupied during the first days of the war. Her friend’s son reached agreement with the Russians that he would take the women by car to a safe place. When they drove past the road-block, however, the soldiers opened fire.

52-year-old Valentyn Hryshchenko comes from Dymer village near Kyiv. During the occupation he helped distribute humanitarian aid and was arrested for doing so. He was tossed “into a cellar”, interrogated and tortured.

Mariia Sigaieva, an 80 year old philologist from Kharkiv, was born during wartime 1942, and now she is afraid of dying during another war. She and her daughter are forced to live in a bomb shelter as a missile hit their apartment, just like a needle, on the second day of the Russian invasion