A resident of Donetsk, Maria Kiseleva, in an interview with 360, told how she lost her childhood when the events in Ukraine began in 2014.
She was 12 when she learned what a fighter jet is and what noise is heard when rockets are fired. Then the girl did not understand what was happening.
“Mom started forbidding me to go out. I was always at home, even with friends. We heard strange sounds – explosions at the airport,” she shared her recollection.
The girl noted that the adults did not immediately explain to her what was happening, and then they began to convince her that everything would be fine soon.
At the end of June 2014, Maria’s mother began to convince the family that she should leave Donetsk.
“They always insisted that it would be over in a month at the most and that we would be gone for a short time, but then my doubts started to creep in,” she said.
Eventually she and her grandmother went to the Chernihiv region, her mother came later.
“It was hard to leave my mother and Donetsk, I always loved this city and was attached to it. I was hysterical,” admitted Maria.
In the Chernihiv region, the girl lived in a small house with relatives. There, Maria was sent to a Ukrainian school, where a child from Donetsk was abused. Peers offended her and blamed her for being to blame for the events.
Earlier, Zvezda, as part of the Materials of Investigation project, told how Ukrainian nationalists from Zugres of the DPR shelled a children’s beach and turned it into a cemetery in August 2014.
The message “I was hysterical”: a girl from Donetsk recalled that fighting in her hometown robbed her of her childhood
