{"id":242531,"date":"2022-03-04T17:34:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T17:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.warstoriesukraine.com\/olenakharkiv\/"},"modified":"2022-03-22T13:48:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T13:48:49","slug":"olenakharkiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warstoriesukraine.com\/de\/olenakharkiv\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201eDie Besatzer beschie\u00dfen alles\u201c, Olena, 29, Charkiw"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been trying to reach 29-year-old Olena from Kharkiv all day. <\/span>Because of the war, the city is experiencing communications breakdowns and the absence of one in the network can mean serious problems. <\/span>I was glad to finally be able to hear Olena’s voice that evening. <\/span>I felt their exhaustion over hundreds of kilometers that separate us.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

-Hello Lena, how are you?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

– It’s going ok.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

She is my childhood friend. <\/span>I’m having a hard time doing this interview. <\/span>Hard to imagine how she gives answers in the basement, where she has been with her little daughter for a week.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

„There are explosions now too. <\/span>The occupiers shoot at everything. <\/span>We live in the city center and there are always explosions. <\/span>Almost the whole city is destroyed. <\/span>We were lucky that the bullet didn’t hit the house but a nearby tree. <\/span>But we still almost do not leave the basement. <\/span>As soon as we go home, sirens wail. <\/span>And we return to cover again\u201d, – says Olena.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She and her family have been in the basement since the first day of the war, February 24th. <\/span>No one prepared for war, but hearing the explosions, they immediately understood: they must flee to cover. <\/span>You didn’t want to leave the city. <\/span>The family believed that everything would end in a day or two. <\/span>It was hard to imagine that everything would happen in such a way that residential buildings would also be shelled and that almost nothing would remain of the city.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe first thing I felt was fear for my child. <\/span>It still stays with me. <\/span>Why does my child have to sit in the basement while someone enjoys life <\/span><\/span><\/span>? <\/span>\u2013 Olena does not hide her anger. <\/span>Your basement is not the worst. <\/span>The residents furnished it themselves. <\/span>She hangs out with a lot of neighbors with young children, which helps control emotions. <\/span>You have the food for a few days. <\/span>She bought the children’s goods for the coming week in the first days of the war. <\/span>At that time you could still buy something.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In such situations, humanity was expressed particularly clearly, which had not been so pronounced before.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The family helps Olena not to lose heart. <\/span>She has no idea if it would be possible to leave town with the child now. <\/span>She didn’t want to take any chances and go somewhere under fire. <\/span>My girlfriend hopes for a quick victory of Ukraine, and only if there is another scenario, she will go abroad.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Olena is convinced that the city will be rebuilt if only it remains Ukrainian. <\/span>Now she only dreams of peace. <\/span>A week ago she had other plans: „I dreamed of taking courses and learning a new job. <\/span>I wanted to travel, buy a house, a car. <\/span>Of course, together with my husband, I wanted to make sure that the family enjoyed prosperity. <\/span>But one person (Putin \u2013 ed.) destroyed our plans\u2026 The plans of the whole nation\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I’ve been trying to reach 29-year-old Olena from Kharkiv all day. Because of the war, the city is experiencing communications breakdowns and the absence of one in the network can mean serious problems. I was glad to finally be able to hear Olena’s voice that evening. I felt their exhaustion over hundreds of kilometers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":240115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[79,65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warstoriesukraine.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warstoriesukraine.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warstoriesukraine.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warstoriesukraine.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warstoriesukraine.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.warstoriesukraine.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242536,"href":"https:\/\/www.warstoriesukraine.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242531\/revisions\/242536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warstoriesukraine.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warstoriesukraine.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warstoriesukraine.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warstoriesukraine.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}