Oksana Lymar is originally from Sievierodonetsk, Luhansk Oblast. After the outbreak of hostilities in Donbas in 2014, she and her family were forced to move to the city of Kreminna, Luhansk Oblast, leaving behind their own production facility in Sievierodonetsk. After moving to Kreminna, the family began to settle down in a new place and built a new home. And in March 2022, when the full-scale war and hostilities began in Kreminna, the couple was forced to leave the city as it became too dangerous.

At first, Oksana’s eldest daughter took the younger children (Khrystyna and Oleksandr) to Dnipro, while she and her husband Roman stayed in Kreminna, doing volunteer work, helping families with small children, the elderly, and the disabled. And in April, when enemy troops entered the city and heavy fighting began, they decided to evacuate to Dnipro.

They settled in the centre for IDPs of the Charity Foundation ‘Dobro na Amur’, her husband first helped with construction work in a shelter, and then got a job as a welder. Oksana takes care of the family, helps with the housework in the shelter, and the children study online. The family does not know what condition their home is in now, whether it has survived or not, or whether they will have a place to return to. They only hope that the war will end soon and peace will come.