Story 35: Tetyana & Kira
Nearly 200 infants were born and cared for at Kherson Regional Children's Hospital during the nine-month occupation of Kherson
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Story 2: Davyd
READ MATERIALStory 34: Anastasiia & Mariia
16-year-old Mariia and 18-year-old Anastasiia from Russia-occupied Kherson were deported to temporarily occupied Crimea.
Story 33: Sofia
14-year-old Sofia was deported to temporarily occupied Crimea in October 2022.
Story 32: Yevhen
Yevhen, 51, was in Kharkiv during the initial days of Russia's full-scale invasion. Starting from March 9, 2022, he participated in the evacuation of people from the temporarily occupied villages of Vylkhyvka and Mala Rohan.
Story 31: Kateryna
To flee to the Ukraine-controlled territory from Mariupol in Spring 2022 was impossible. Russian troops surrendered the city and frequently shelled evacuation routes.
Story 30: Nataliya
Nataliya, from Ternova village, 20 kilometers northeast of the city of Kharkiv and 7 kilometers from the Russian border, was forcibly deported to Russia on May 31.
Story 29: Svitlana
Svitlana, the 24-year-old woman from a Mariupol suburb, was forcibly deported upon the city’s full siege by Russian troops.
Story 28: Anna
In late March 2022, it was becoming impossible to survive in Mariupol under siege. No drinking water, no heat and food.
Story 27: Anastasiia
A 15-year-old, Anastasiia, was deported from Kherson to temporarily occupied Crimea in September.
Story 26: Lilya
In September 2022, Kherson was still occupied by the Russians, but they were already preparing for withdrawal as the AFU approached.
Story 25: Ihor
A 15-year-old Ihor and his mother Natalia lived in Kherson before Russia’s full-scale war. The woman tried to drive her child out of the city, but all the roads were blocked by Russian soldiers.
Story 24: Yevheniia
10-year-old Yevheniia lived with her mother in Kupyansk in Kharkiv region. The city was occupied since the first days of Russia’s full-scale war, but the family didn’t want to leave their home.
Story 23: Andrii
Andrii, a 17-year-old teenager from Mykolaiv, was kidnapped in August 2022 by Russian troops.
Story 22: Serhii
Serhii, a 16-year-old boy, lived near Mariupol. Just before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he lost his parents and lived in an orphanage.
Story 21: Yurii
Yurii, 21, was an engineering student from Mariupol. He lived apart from his family, so when the city was besieged, he was split from his parents. Yurii’s mother managed to escape from Mariupol, but Yurii himself was forcibly deported to Russia by the occupants.
Story 20: Anton
Together with other 200 residents of a nursing house in Kakhovka, Anton was forcibly deported to Russia after 8 months under occupation.
Story 19: Anastasiia and Veronika
Two sisters 15 y.o. Anastasia and 13 y.o. Veronika lived with her mother in Luhansk region.
Story 18: Oleksandr
Until on November 5, Oleksandr together with other residents of the nursing house were forcibly deported.
Story 17: Bohdan
Bohdan, a 35-year-old man on a wheelchair, was deported to Russia by Russian occupation authorities against his will, but he was able to get away.
Story 16: Yulia
Yulia and her two sons, Ivan, 5, and Matthew, 11, were forcibly deported to Russia. The family was forced to undergo several filtration camps, but abandoned Russian passports and escaped from captivity.
Story 15: Yevheniia
When Russians occupied Kherson, they forcibly deported children from the region to Russia. 10-year-old Yevheniia was taken from her mother “to be evacuated to a safe place, in a boarding school in Anapa”, Russians said.
Story 14: Andrii
Andrii, 19, together with his mother were deported to Russia from Mariupol.
Story 13: Vlad
Vlad was forcibly deported to Taganrog from Mariupol at the beginning of March 2022. All his documents, stuff, and money burned in his apartment after a shelling.
Story 12: Oleksandr
Oleksandr lived with his mother and sister when the full-scale war began. Soon, the Russian troops occupied their city.
Story 11: Marharyta
8-year-old Marharyta lived with her father in the Kherson region when the full-scale war began. In late October 2022
Denys, father of deported Pasha
The boy went missing and there were no clues that he survived the shelling. After a while, Pasha’s father, Denis, received a message with a video featuring his son.
Story 9: Tetyana
Tetyana, 25, together with her mother and brother were forcibly deported to Russia from Mariupol in March 2022. The family was hiding in bomb shelters from the start of the full-scale invasion, but they were evicted from there by approaching Russian troops.
Story 8: Anonymous
On September 30, Russian troops broke into a house where a 16-year-old teenager (we keep his name anonymous), lived with his grandmother. It was late at night and there was no reason for such vandalism.
Story 7: Natalia
82-year-old Natalia lost her house in the besieged Mariupol. She hid in bomb shelters for a while, but eventually Russian troops found her and took her to a filtration camp.
Story 6: Yevhen
To survive Russian massive strikes on Mariupol, Yevhen with his son Matvii and daughter Svyatoslava were hiding in bomb shelters. In April, when Russian soldiers came, they gave people only 30 minutes to prepare for the forcible deportation, which they called “evacuation”.
Story 5: Lena
Those 18 new children were abducted by the Russian troops from Snigurivka, Mykolaiv region. They were orphans, too. The Russian occupation regime disregarded the children’s needs and didn’t care for food supplies.
Story 4: Volodymyr
Since Kherson was occupied by the Russian troops, Volodymyr took responsibility and care of 50 orphan kids of age from 4 to 15. The man was the Director of the "Center for Social and Psychological Rehabilitation of Children" and he vowed to protect the orphans.
Story 3: Olena, mother of deported Andrii
Suddenly the hospital was bombarded. Olena's mother died in the shelling and her son, Andrii, got seriously injured. Olena witnessed him being taken away by the Russian soldiers. They said they would place him in a military hospital. She was helpless in front of them.
Story 2: Davyd
Davyd was 17 when his hometown, Mariupol, was occupied by the Russian Forces. He stayed there till April under heavy shelling and when trying to escape to Ukrainian controlled territory Davyd got imprisoned in an orphanage.
Story 1: Ilia
Ilia, 19, with his mother and brother was forcibly taken to the RF by bus from Mariupol. By then the city was ruined and fully occupied by the Russian forces. Ilia and his family had no way to escape.
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