Natalya Askerova
Rivne , Ukraine
46 y. o.
We are displaced people from Kherson. On 25 February an enemy shell flew into our home and it caught fire. We were in the basement at the time, then had to run to the neighbors under shelling. The home burned down and everything with it: clothes, belongings, documents. We lived in a bomb shelter at a hospital for a month and then returned to the basement. We spent almost half a year under occupation, without work and without help. When they started blowing up the Antonivskyi Bridge, we live not far from it, neither our nerves nor our health could take it anymore. When we left, we passed almost 40 occupier checkpoints. My father, who is a Group 1 disabled person, had a very hard time on the road; after a stroke he cannot speak and his right side is almost paralyzed. My mother is a Group 3 disabled person and I also have Group 3 disability. Now we live in Rivne, renting a two-room apartment where six of us live: me, my mother, my father and my three children. It is hard, but we hope that everything will end soon, that our guys will win!!! and all will be well.

I am the mother of three children, disabled in the third group, I also have disabled parents. They lost almost everything during the war: home, property, clothes, things, favorite work, health, but they did not lose their lives and faith in goodness, and especially in our victory.