Two months ago, a war broke out in Ukraine at the initiative of russian president vladimir putin. On February 24, russian troops crossed the Ukrainian border. The worst thing in this situation is not even the fact of war itself, but the fact that it is waged by absolutely cruel and unacceptable methods, For instance: there were cases of rape of women and children, cases of shelling of hospitals and schools and civilians who tried to leave the occupied territory who tried to save their lives from looters and air fighters. I remember the time when russia occupied Crimea, and then I listened to every sound and thought, maybe it's a war, maybe it's a bomb.  After not far from the Kyiv zoo were bitter fighting, now I know that the sound of war is not to be confused with anything. That's how I became a refugee, fled my country, and appeared in Spain. I met a lot of refugees with babies who had to flee the country because of full-scale war because in their city fighting flared, and they had to protect their children. One woman with a 7-year-old child told me that they fled by train. Everyone was afraid of a skirmish with the russians  and her daughter Katia was crying because she heard bombs not far from the train which is very difficult for the child and this lady was telling me how their train was hiding from combats.  They managed to flee from the war, but the next train had a fight with occupants, russians just opened fire and made a massacre. I didn't know what to say when she told me this story. Katia was asking me about her father who stayed in Donetsk where so many buildings were shelled. And I still don't know what I should answer to such questions. Just imagine a young mother and daughter went to a completely different country where they had never even been only with 20 euros and an alarming suitcase and while they were escaping they were almost killed. In fact, my situation is quite similar, we all have a similar situation now, but at that time I was really happy that I do not have children and little siblings. The war started two months ago, but I still don't know how to react to this genocide, to the heavy civilian casualties. In my view of life, no problem needs to be solved with weapons. Two months have passed since the beginning of the war, but it is still difficult for me to realize what happened. Today, the whole world is watching the situation in Ukraine. It is difficult to remain indifferent after seeing photos of Mariupol or Bucha. I am from Kyiv and Bucha is not far from my home. My father stayed in Kiyv, and he is trying to help in Bucha, Irpin, and other cities, and he sends me photos every day and I can see a war-torn country with my own eyes and what happened with cities which were hot spots.
So rusia always been a threat to Ukraine and I understand it. But this is the 21st century and I hopped that something has changed. We also had dark moments with Poland, but they don't try to occupy our country. Nowadays, they even try to somehow support us and along with this take care of our refugees.  However, I'm disappointed because I've heard a lot of dictum about the war from the leaders of different countries but nobody helped. Undoubtedly, I am very grateful for all the relief help and for accepting me in another country, but I do not understand why the world community allowed this conflict and why many people were forced to leave their hometown or die just because they were born in Ukraine.  Every day I hear about how our soldiers inflicted losses on russian troops, and it's difficult for me to imagine what a person who is forced to defend his homeland feels, and of course, I'm grateful for all this, but the fact this war happened suggests that with this world something is wrong. I only hope that this war will not be a protracted process and there will be an opportunity to rebuild everything soon and see my family and friends.                         

We’re hanging in there!