From the first days of the war, now having two children, Karina was forced to part with her family for a month. The eldest 9-year-old son-in-law came under occupation, and the family home was completely destroyed by the occupiers.
The woman was in the last month of her pregnancy and was about to give birth to a baby girl when an enemy shell fell near their house. In exchange for prenatal troubles, Karina had to plunge into military life.
This is stated in the plot “Breakfast with 1 + 1”.
“Everything was ready for the maternity hospital. There were already bags just in case. I woke up after a shell fell somewhere nearby. Our beds and windows were moved. And then my father and husband began to prepare to take me out of the village,” – says the mother of 9-year-old Sasha.
Karina was taken to the hospital in Orikhiv, but she could not find peace there either. Almost immediately, the connection with relatives disappeared, and due to the tense situation in the city, all mothers were evacuated to Zaporizhia.
“We were brought. The next day I learned that there were no survivors in the maternity hospital. There was just fear in front of my eyes. Fear of giving birth? And the biggest fear was whether I would see my relatives,” the woman said.
On March 4, an enemy shell nearly killed Karina’s entire family. The girl was not told that she no longer had a home.
“Father, brother, wife and child were brought there. The father pulled them out from under the rubble. Thank God they all survived,” says Karina.
After that, her husband Vitaliy decided to send his son Sasha on an evacuation bus to Marina’s sister in the town of Vasylivka. And already there the boy came under occupation.
Sashka Milana’s sister was born on March 28. But Karina had to combine the joys of motherhood with the search for temporary housing. They did not stop shelling their native village, so the woman’s relatives decided to flee.
“There is a village, a house, cattle, there is my father’s equipment. Still, there is a native place,” Karina complains.
Fortunately, volunteers helped with housing in Zaporizhia. They were housed in a room where there used to be a pharmacy.
“Who took what they could: furniture, plates, pots. Who could – brought food, food, who brought money,” – says the woman.
At the same time, caring people helped return from occupied Vasylivka and Sasha. But at the Russian checkpoint, volunteer cars did not pass. That’s why a 9-year-old boy walked the Ukrainian territory alone.
“I was shown where, I went on that course. Then I saw the car I had to get in, got in the car and left. I was afraid. There were still so many cars and blockages,” – recalls Sasha.
But in a few minutes the fear turned into unprecedented joy – the family finally reunited. Now most of all, Karina dreams of returning to her native Ukrainian village and never parting with her family.
“I want peace and everything. Nothing more. We will live somehow, we are not alone, there are many of us,” – said the woman.
It will be recalled that those rescued from Azovstal tell how Aunt Soup survived in the dungeon and how they were saved from starvation.
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Source: TSN
