Olena describes the impact on her family while living with airstrikes and power cuts in Irpin, Ukraine
e had another spoilt morning on Monday – another massive attack with air sirens. My 11-year-old son was woken by them about 7.30am. We waited until after 10am for the air alert to end. We didn’t have electricity [almost] all day.
I signed an agreement for him to be given potassium iodide if an explosion happens while he’s at school. The kids would have to stay there in a shelter until the government says it’s safe to get your kid back home. It’s very logical, but it [would be] dreadfully scary to stay home, taping all the windows and ventilation, knowing your kid is at school and will need to shelter there for some time.We’re lucky to have our school in Irpin – one was burned down and several partly destroyed.
My son was very upset on Tuesday when he came back from school around 5pm and saw that it was dark. He started crying, partly because he was hungry. He was concerned [about] how to do his homework, so I first fed him to make him feel little a less miserable then he started to memorise the poem which was assigned. He went to bed before the electricity was on.I’m a translator and I need to work online – only I’m working right now. My husband is a lawyer and he hardly has any work [at the moment].
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