Alla Mykhnovets lived in Lysychansk, Luhansk Oblast, before Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine. After the war began, she was forced to live in the basement of her home in her hometown for a month, fleeing enemy shelling, and then decided to leave for a safer place.

In the spring of 2022, the woman moved to the center for displaced persons of CF “Good on Amur” in Dnipro. Volunteers met her at the train station and took her to the shelter.

She says that at first, everyone (almost 40 people, as well as the pets that came with them) lived in one large room, which was later converted into an assembly hall. Then other rooms were arranged and people began to live in separate rooms. Now it is more convenient to live in the shelter, but there is still much to be done to make the living conditions comfortable for the IDPs.

The woman learned from her friends that her house in Lysychansk had been severely damaged. The roof was destroyed, furniture and appliances were flooded with water that had accumulated there during the war after heavy rainfall.

She does not want to go home yet. She is waiting for peace to come to the whole of Ukraine, and in particular to the Luhansk region, so that she can return and rebuild her home. She thanks the volunteers for sheltering her, giving her food and shelter and the opportunity to stay in the shelter for a long time.