[music playing] We thought that we can be masters of our future.

I don't know if it's correct to think about future nowadays.

[music playing] We still don't know what will happen in next three days, what will happen in next week, month, year.

We had plans.

We had countries that we wanted to visit, but war started.

[music playing] [non-english speech] So many people, the destinies was destroyed.

And even those who are alive, they are broken from inside.

When war started, we woke up from the sound of explosion, and we decided in this first hour to move to western part of Ukraine.

And my husband goes straight to her room, and he said, you can take few-- your favorite toys, and we going to some journey.

She didn't cry.

She's five years old.

I'm telling her what's happening, what's happening in our city now, and how it started.

It's Russian who came to us, and they started war here.

And they killed us because we are Ukrainians.

[non-english speech] Yesterday, it was crazy.

The part of cluster bomb fell on our yard, on the square where kids playing.

When I see the part of the bomb on the place where my daughter played-- [music playing] [non-english speech] Actually, these are vouchers for free food.

This restaurant, Bento-- [non-english speech] They came to us and give food vouchers because they do free-- [non-english speech] It's every time with kids.

You just need to try to save them from-- ah.

I don't talk too much to Polish people because I don't know Polish, but they're very nice and kind to us.

For example, my landlord, she gave me so much clothes for me for my daughter.

It's priceless.

[music playing] The border is so close.

It's only 12, 13 kilometers from this town.

It was very cold.

It was snowing.

And every night, I was looking at my baby sleeping in a cozy place, in a warm place.

And when I was thinking of those women standing on the border walking in that freezing cold, I kept crying all the time.

For two or three weeks, I kept crying all the time.

There were times when they were waiting to cross the border for three, four days.

If the husband could take them to the border, there was a stop where they couldn't go further because men cannot leave Ukraine.

There were nights that the kids froze to death, and we couldn't do anything about it.

After the very first shock, we decided that we had to help.

There is war, so we must do something.

[non-english speech] With my husband, we decided that the easiest for us would be to take a woman with a baby because our son is almost two years old, so we've got everything at home for the baby-- clothes, equipment, toys.

Everything is here.

Everything is ready.

I only had to arrange the second bed, which-- I posted on Facebook in our local group, very local town group, that, hey, guys.

I need a bed.

And after one hour, I had five offers.

And then I found Ola, a girl from [inaudible]..

It's a city near Kyiv, so from Eastern Ukraine.

She decided to escape with her two children when the first bombs fell near their house, and she desperately needed a place to stay.

We talked a lot, and it was really nice.

Well, noisy, I must say with more kids.

And the government is boasting that we have no refugees camps.

Yes, but it's Polish private people who do that.

We take them homes.

We help them.

We buy them clothes.

We buy them food.

We buy them everything.

[music playing] [non-english speech] Behind me, we have Ukrainians that are waiting in line to come into our free store, which has been operating since the beginning of the war.

These people have nowhere to go.

If we say they have to leave, then they're going to be homeless.

[music playing] Yesterday, my ex-husband give me this cake.

I don't know why.

Maybe he loves me.

[non-english speech] For now, no, I don't want to go back.

Because first of all, it's very dangerous.

It's not about only that they're destroying houses.

They rape our women.

They rape old men, old women.

And they say, we will rape your kids as hard that when they will be women, they couldn't do Ukrainian kids.

So even those who are alive, even the lucky people like me, we are still crying in the night because there is no word that can explain what we feel.

[music playing] [non-english speech] [music playing] We are from Mykolaiv.

I came to my parents.

I said, take your clothes.

Take your stuff, and come with us.

They said no.

Nothing will happen.

Nothing serious will be happened, so we are staying.

[non-english speech] They came, but they can't sit calm.

They come here.

They help.

They volunteer.

My father come every day like on work.

[non-english speech] Maybe she is being too emotional.

But she constantly thinking about the war, and even she is in a safe place.

She, with mind she's still in Mykolaiv.

I was born in Mykolaiv.

[music playing] [non-english speech] My business in Ukraine, in Mykolaiv, I produced vegan desserts and vegan food.

We wanted to buy one house to repair it, to make it like cool, modern kitchen with some place where you can come, drink coffee, buy desserts.

But it will never happen.

[music playing] Mama.

My grandma was from what is now in Ukraine because she was born before war, so now this area belongs to Ukraine.

Ukraine is so close, it's our physical neighbors.

I think we are just helping.

We can see all the terrible things that people are doing to other people, and it's like something we want to say no to.

[non-english speech] [music playing] We're trying to start a new life here.

But during the day, we're like smiling to each other.

We're smiling to Poles.

We are laughing, but when we come to home and read news, we like-- we don't know what to do.

We are pretending to living life, pretending to be alive.

[music playing] [non-english speech] We will do the best for our daughter.

I want that she knows that now, she is safe.

So I don't know about future.

But for Vasilisa, for sure, we will make it as safe as possible.

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