I'm Viktor, and for me personally the war has been going on since 2014, when the occupiers captured Luhansk and half of Donetsk region and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, my father was taken from the company where he worked all his life to a military unit because he used to serve in the army, Then my mother and I thought that he would be released soon, but they were sent to Ilovaisk, from which their group did not return, they immediately announced that he was missing, they searched for him for about a year, but still have not found anything, only the remains of a car with the remains in it, They declared him dead, but they didn't tell me about it because I was too young to understand it. When my father disappeared, I was 10 years old and my younger brother was 2 years old, so he was the easiest to survive, but it was harder for my mother because she lost her beloved husband, She didn't show that she was sad, but once I went into my mother's room without permission and saw her crying quietly so that we wouldn't see anything, and after that moment I realized that my life was divided into before and after.
About 5 years later, in 2019, everyone moved on from the grief that had happened, everyone lived on. But on February 24, 2022, it all started... My mother was in a very big panic because she had already experienced the loss of a loved one once and did not want anyone else to die, so we immediately went abroad, when it became difficult for my mother to live abroad, she returned home, and somehow now they live, I became a student at a foreign university and somehow I live and cope with all the problems. I decided to go to this city and university on the advice of a friend who had already been here. At the beginning it was very difficult. There was a different language, different people, a lot of paperwork, and financially it was also very difficult. I am very grateful to Poland for accepting a large number of refugees, there were many support programs, they gave me food, underwear, etc. Now everything is much better, I am studying, I know the language well, I work. Things are much better now than at the beginning, I'm used to everything. But I really miss my home, my grandparents, the family I have left, I haven't seen them for a long time, I try to keep myself busy with household chores to worry less.
