Anastasiia Movchan from Blyzniuky, Kharkiv region, already had her train and bus tickets in hand. She was going to work in Poland. God knew for how long. “I was so reluctant to leave my husband and parents,” she recalls. “But there was no other option.” It was November 2022, the tenth month of the full-scale war. The art school in Blyzniuky, where Anastasiia taught drawing, closed. Her products with Petrykivka paintings didn’t sell well. Her husband's salary was not enough to keep the whole family. So, she had to pack her bags.
With the slogan If you want order in the house, choose women in power! Liliia Kislitsyna, a former journalist, media specialist, and marketing director, won local elections in 2015, becoming a deputy of the Kramatorsk City Council. Liliia set herself the goal of opening a modern perinatal center in the city, as there was no specialized medical facility for pregnant women and newborns in the region after the occupation of Donetsk city in 2014.
Dr. Tetiana was displaced from her home in Rubizhne, Luhansk region in the early days of Russia’s war, leaving under fire from Russia’s forces. She arrived in a small town in Kyiv region on March 11, 2022, along with her mother, her child, and her dog. Just six days later,