The solitary confinement of the children of Chernobyl

These two girls, 15 and 13 years old, who spend their summers with host families in the Basque Country, still carry the fear of weeks of occupation that they suffered firsthand

“I am 15 years old and I am https://hyvebook.com/rodriquezbuddy afraid to sleep alone. I am ashamed to say this, but we have been very scared. You did not know what could happen https://uppervote.com/read-blog/8260_duramax-thailand.html the next minute and we said goodbye every time of this life ». This is the response of Faina Bratunets when https://www.geeb.xyz/rodriquezbuddy she is asked about the six weeks she has lived under Russian occupation in Ivankiv, in northern Ukraine and https://ussv.club/read-blog/51321_duramax-thailand.html very close to Chernobyl. Faina has been traveling to Euskadi every summer for seven years, like hundreds of https://kruthai.com/read-blog/90091_duramax-thailand.html other children from this area near the nuclear power plant. «I am going to Getxo. There is Virginia, my second family, and my friends, and I am looking forward to returning », she assures in perfect Spanish.

With an overwhelming integrity, https://hippieclic.com/read-blog/78648_duramax-thailand.html she walks through the garden of her house accompanied by her German shepherd, Chery, and points to a crater next to one of the https://everyonezone.com/read-blog/70358_duramax-thailand.html walls. A shell hit right here, but it didn't explode. “It was like a plane crash. We were at home, we heard that loud sound… but in the https://www.buzzbii.com/read-blog/55742_duramax-thailand.html end nothing happened », she assures. The artifact is still there, stuck in the ground waiting to be removed by specialists from the Ukrainian forces.

Russian troops have https://forum.vaneayoung.de/d/20-duramax-thailand withdrawn from northern kyiv and their legacy is death, destruction and isolation. The areas they occupied have http://www.renexus.org/network/read-blog/15593_duramax-thailand.html become a black hole without coverage of any kind and this has generated great anxiety among the families who https://prendster.com/rodriquezbuddy have been sheltering these children for years. There are only small islands where you can make a call abroad. In Ivankiv, https://woó.com/read-blog/15824_duramax-thailand.html which had 10,000 inhabitants before the war, this island is on the ninth floor where Faina's grandmother lives and from where she first contacted her adopted family in Getxo after weeks of silence.

Faina has experienced https://www.rolonet.com/blogs/50056/Duramax-Thailand the entire Russian occupation in the first person. Soldiers and tanks patrolled the streets of Ivankiv, where https://friendship.money/read-blog/10547_duramax-thailand.html there was not much resistance from Ukrainian forces and so there is not as much destruction in the urban area. This https://tokemonkey.com/rodriquezbuddy was the area they first occupied and the last they left, and in their farewell they destroyed the main access bridge over https://remnant.one/rodriquezbuddy the Teteriv River, so that now the only way to enter and leave is through a provisional bridge installed by the Army.

The trip to kyiv is 90 kilometers and before it took an hour and a half. Now it can carry more than six, depending https://weoneit.com/read-blog/24032_duramax-thailand.html on the queues of vehicles on the bridges and the mud on the alternate paths that have to be taken through the woods.

Without eleectricity

A few minutes' drive https://social.studentb.eu/read-blog/15511_duramax-thailand.html from Ivankiv leads to the village of Sukochi, where Anna Mertel lives with her parents, two brothers and a https://social.worldcubers.com/read-blog/9780_duramax-thailand.html grandmother. It is a quiet place, away from the main route where the Russian tanks circulated, but where https://socialagora.xyz/rodriquezbuddy the sounds of war "terrified us and that is why we spent four days locked in the basement," recalls this 13-year-old https://www.vidagrafia.com/read-blog/6922_duramax-thailand.html girl in sweet Basque with Oñati accent. She has been traveling to Gipuzkoa for six years and her last visit was https://www.themetwallynetwork.com/read-blog/7111_duramax-thailand.html at Christmas. A few weeks after her return, the war broke out and she cut off all communication with "my aita Iñaki, my https://devwe.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=34545 mistress Zorione and my two brothers Eneko and Unax, who are younger than me," she laments. In Sukochi there are no https://www.hdbseller.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=111033 nine-story buildings with cell phone islands, just humble cottages lined up side by side with their orchards and smoky chimneys.

In this part of https://duramaxthailand.educatorpages.com/ Ukraine there is no electricity, but there is gas, and in Anna's kitchen there is never a lack of a good casserole of boiled https://duramaxthai.footeo.com/news/2022/04/08/duramax-safe-testosterone-male-enhancement-complex-formula potatoes with onions. Supermarkets are closed and food is scarce so they live off what the land gives them. This week https://quesanswer.com/question/duramax-thailand/ the first humanitarian aid has arrived in Ivankiv Square and little by little the authorities hope to improve the services.

There is no electricity https://www.stageit.com/rodriquezbuddy and Anna cannot listen to records of the teen series 'Goazen', her favorite on television. He reads stories about 'Nur' to his https://www.techrum.vn/threads/duramax-thailand.573460/ little brother and counts the hours to fly to Oñati again, although this time, taking into account the uncertainty that reigns in his http://community.getvideostream.com/topic/38844/duramax-thailand country, he assures that "I would like to go with my mother and two brothers until things calm down, we have been very scared ».

Faina and Anna are https://workplace.vidcloud.io/social/read-blog/6450_duramax-thailand.html united by being Chernobyl girls, by having lived under the Russian occupation and because both have their sights https://kukooo.com/new-york-city/duramax-thailand_i235105 set on their adopted homes more than ever. More than four million Ukrainians are now refugees in other countries https://www.outlived.co.uk/ads/duramax-thailand/ due to the war. Ukraine is a country of farewells and Getxo and Oñati may soon be the scene of two warm welcomes. https://social.artisanssoft.com/read-blog/31591_duramax-thailand.html Faina poses next to what was the main access bridge to Ivankiv over the Teteriv River, destroyed by the invading Army.