Neighbors were moving out, leaving behind everything they had. Their daughter's family was also evacuated. Galina stayed with her husband, who flatly refused to go. They are both disabled people of the second group. "They decided: if they have to die, then together. That's how they stayed in their native Irpen," the woman adds.
As a result of shelling, the city was left without communications. "We cooked on bricks, from which we fashioned such and such a small stove in the yard. We had a little of our own products, the neighbors who were leaving threw all kinds of food at us through the fence."
They spent the night next to the house - in the seminary's storage room. "And there was nothing to hide from... Airplanes and drones were circling our city continuously, shells were exploding," says Galina.
On March 19, the enemy shelled the seminary. "Probably, those who pointed the weapons there knew that ordinary residents, mostly elderly people, were hiding here from the shelling. Why kill us?! - says the woman. - After those shots, everyone ran away, scared. We - to our huts. And from it - only ruins, our native home burns down..."