So, my name is Sasha, I'm 18 years old. I was born also in the Luhansk region, in Donbass, in the small town called Olchevsk. Yeah, and I spent the whole childhood there. And when I was 10, also the war in Donbass has begun. And as I remember, I did not take it like hard. I do not understand what's going on who is good who is bad but for my parents they take it really hard they were supposed to to make a really hard decision to leave their job their house their parents uh and just start a new life in harkiv yeah and they left everything and moved to harkiv with me and my sister so then they found a new job i found a new school and for about eight years also it was like okay my grandmother's grandfather say in Alchevsk also right now also yeah and our like house our apartments just like looks like we were just going for a walk or something and all our like things clothes just stayed there I don't know yeah so and um it was okay for about eight years and then I remember that I woke up at 24 24th February at was like a Russian were bombing the military objects and it was like five kilometers near to my house yeah and the first thing that my father said to me was like honey the war has begun and we turned on the TV and we are trying to understand what is happening, but there were no news. And then after an hour there was news like that the Russians bombing the whole Ukraine yeah and like the my my sister was in another city and my mother was so shocked and she trying she was trying to to make to make her come to us. And she was like... And she found like a bread truck. And my sister was like in the bread truck going to Kharkiv. Yeah and then we like the next week was like a real hell because we were sitting in our apartments in the corridor because our basement, the basement in our house was like to stay in there was more dangerous because it has only one exit and it has like and it has like no water no no canalization or something. Yeah, so we were staying in our corridor and we live in the area which is really close to the war line. And a lot of houses near us were ruined because of shelling, because of bombing. My friend's house was ruined because of it. And we were sitting in our house and it was like airplanes, helicopters. It was really scared. Like, we could not even go to the shop to buy some food. My father was making bread by his own and we have no flour. He was trying to do something that we can eat. yeah and also the thing was that we have problems with mobility communications so I cannot even know if my friends are still alive or something yeah and we were sitting like under bombing like about a week because for my parents it was a really hard decision to leave their house for the second time, to leave the job, to leave the house because they are not so young and it's really hard for them. the electricity, the heating, also the internet, the mobility communications were like cutting off and we cannot stay in our house. And then we just packed our bags and the next day we left our house under under shelling because there are still like war in in that area yeah so um we we drove like the uh we were trying to get to the west ukraine about four days but like in uh usual you can like um uh drive this distance like in 16 hours and we were like driving uh four days and my father was like in the car and he need to sleep on the bed not he cannot sleep in the car and he and we were supposed and there were was like no hotels no hostels no apartments because all of them are full of people like we and we were supposed to sleep in a kindergarten that was the worst I think one of the worst night ever in my life because I see like a hundred hundreds people sleeping on the floor just on on the floor, the children, the woman, the man, like sleeping together just on the floor without anything, just their clothes. And they were like crying, maybe something. And it was so, yeah. i don't even know they and i think that right now there there are also like people who are sleeping like that in the basement or something it is really scared yeah so um i think then we then we get to the west ukraine and my parents are still there they have no job no no plans for future they don't understand what to do because they don't know what to do they don't know like languages or something they have like no place to go to they just sitting and continue eating the money that they earned like for the whole life yeah and uh on in when i was in the west ukraine i saw um like an offer from lynx to move here and to continue my study. Yeah, so now I'm here. Thank you.