Some feeling was just ‒ it's uncertainty, some anxiety. But at the same time, on February 24, a full-scale, and on the 25th, the east of the village began to do (this is a general meeting of citizens). At these meetings, the headman reports on his work. I said that somehow I did not believe until the last that we would have this east of the village, but we were preparing. She wrote the report, but there is a feeling...

My daughter called my brother from Chernihiv somewhere around 6 o'clock in the morning. She said that yes and yes, they are bombing, the war has begun.

We arranged a cellar. There were about eleven of us, some of us spent the night in matchmakers, and they came to me for a day. My sister is engaged in construction, she said that you should immediately send everything with cellophane in the cellar so that the moisture does not rise like that. They arranged everything, lowered food, battery, clothes, things there. On the third or fourth day, we started arranging all this, because we had five children and I understood that something had to be done.

Shelves were placed under the walls to lean against the walls. They brought it in, put bales of hay. They besieged the entrance with sandbags. Although we went down there only once when Nadynivka was fired upon. While I was getting together, I only had a drawer and it was already there in the basement.

Young people who spent the night in another house came in the morning. They drank tea there and then came to me. There was the Internet right there, so it was convenient for them.

There was such a thing with mobile communication in time, but in principle there was a connection, you could call during the day, we talked here. In fact, we had the Internet. True, the antenna had to be turned in the other direction.

We had water. Literally a couple of years before that, the head tells us: "You don't know how it will be with everything, so that all the wells will be restored". Because now count the water drawn into the house through our yard. If there was no electricity, the wells were working. 

In principle, so that there are actually no problems with bread. We tried to bring bread two or three days later. I have Natasha, her daughter a paramedic, as a biblioterachem, so they actually supported me morally and brought me out of these panic attacks. Thanks to them somehow, we endured it all calmly.

I had 350 loaves of bread getting into my car (that's if it's with bags). If it is an inscription, then it was possible to bring up to 400 loaves of bread. They brought bread from Chernihiv to the last. Then there was more from Vasylkov. From where they could, they drove from there.

Then we also took torment. My best man was the headman in Khreshchaty, unfortunately she died [due to hostilities in the region, she could not get another block of chemotherapy in time], agreed and we went there twice by car with the boys. Two tones of torment were taken there. We entertained her by two kilograms per person.

My classmate worked at the mill, but he also died [heart attack occurred], then we agreed that they would restore the mill. We were still grinding grain there.

When the orcs had already left, the torment threshed a little more there. The stones did not withstand the load, because he was already old. There used to be a steam engine there at first. We think that there must have been almost a water mill there on the bank of the river, and then a steam mill. Now the guys have stopped, it works normally.

My sister at home was ten years older than me, and she actually ran the entire household on the spot. The girls were not all so small, they just organized their work. They helped cook food.

They wanted something so sweet, I'm winding somewhere, I'll bring them some candies, some baked goods. Such that in good times it would not have been looked at was the tastiest.

In fact, I understand this, and they tried to somehow support people. We were a car, there was such a strain with gasoline, but I tried to get here by car, because the grandmothers say: "Oh, Mykhailovna, the car is standing, everything is fine. Flags hanging, car standing". 

It is difficult for me, especially the first time when the orcs were in Yagidny. I was worried that if I were alone, I would be alone, and here are the children. Five children should be left or taken away. And I was most stressed by this question. 

I had Yehor at home for news. I ask: "What's new there?" He tells me everything. In the evenings they played cards and checkers. And when the batteries run out, they walked in the city. The city with the letter "A", who some Katsap city ‒ does not pass, further.

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