“I have five children, one of whom was born a year before the war and has a disability,” says Andriy from the village of Zapovit, Kherson region. – “That night I was sleeping on the couch with her. Through my sleep I heard glass shattering. A few meters from the house, behind the bushes, there was an air strike, and the windows were blown out because of the blast wave. I stretched my arm in front of me in time: a little more and a shard would have hit the child in the neck.”
Andriy recalls that this was not the only dangerous incident during the war. When he and his family were traveling to Kherson on business, there was an air strike on the Court of Appeal, close to where the family was staying. Now Andriy is back in his native village.
The humanitarian organization SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL provided Andriy with funds to repair his house, which was damaged by the shelling. The man does the work himself, and a representative of SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL visits him once every two weeks to take photos of the materials he has purchased and receipts for expenses.
