I heard an explosion, then I called my daughter. They already understood that the war was beginning, they repeatedly said on TV that there would be an offensive. The children found a car and came to our village.

There was shelling here. Later, equipment entered the village, we didn't even know who it was. When they entered the village, there were no flags, nothing. Tanks drove in, only then hung their (Russian) flags at the village council, at the club. They began to look around the territory, drive. On the same day, they robbed two stores. They rode around the village, set up their positions.

The daughter is disabled, she is not a walker. We don't have a cellar with steps. Her husband, my son-in-law, called a neighbor who lives in Chernihiv, but there is an empty house of his late father. No one lived in that house, my son-in-law asked if it was possible to stay there in the basement. Neighbor allowed. The children collected everything they needed: documents, water, chairs. They went to a neighbor. My grandfather and I were at home.

The occupiers fired machine guns everywhere then. They walked around the yards, started calling people. The children then thought that they could shoot people, so they did not answer. Then the Russians threw a grenade directly into the basement, but it is not big. The son-in-law shouted like that, all torn, all in shrapnel. Such a picture cannot be told.

Then the Russians heard a sound that someone shouted. Nata's barely out. "You had to talk", ‒ say. The son-in-law had already been brought unconscious. Seven people brought it, put it on the oilcloth, all in blood. Four shrapnel hit the leg, and the daughter had one shrapnel in her chest. And the son-in-law groaned so much in pain... He was covered in shrapnel, starting from the chest and up to the feet. The Russians put a chapel to him, brought their doctor. They came to us for three days. The daughter had medicines: painkiller, antibiotic, dressing material, so they used it.

 They cooked on bricks. There was no water, we had no gas. The products we had, of course, but that's first. They didn't starve, no, you can't say that. Water was carried, the neighbor helped. There was no firewood, 4 degrees of heat was kept in the house. I warmed the bricks, brought them into the house so that they would be at least warm. There is no foundation in the house. It cannot be conveyed as cold.

 There were hail in the garden here. Behind this hut stood hail. The cripple was told not to be closed, the open cripple day and night. They told her to tie a red ribbon, which meant that people live in this yard and it is not empty.

It was scary like that. I dreamed for 15-20 minutes and that's it. Everything will get into your head again. I didn't want to eat at all. Then the car was theirs here, burning out their corpses. What is it called? Crematorium?

Once the Russians came to our yard, the dog barked, and I left. Nata hardly walks, Serhiy was lying at all, and his grandfather would not say two words. And let's ask where you can buy tobacco. And I say that I don't know where, they didn't come to us anymore.

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