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Halyna Shmatok about his native home: there was nothing to record there, only ruins and ashes

Three generations of the Shmatoks have linked their fate with Velyka Komyshuvakha. Mykola Serhiyovych and Valentyna Vasylivna lived here all their lives. Here they gave birth and raised their son Serhiy and daughter Iryna. Here their adult children started their own families and had children. They would still live in their home village. They would work on their farm, take care of the estate, grow their vegetables – as usual, as they used to, as everyone in the village did. It was… It was before the war. Before the terrible and tragic February 2022.

Read the story of the Shmatok family from Velyka Komyshuvakha in the Kharkiv region.