The full-scale war caught the Kononenko family — Iryna, 66, and Oleksandr, 68 — in their home village of Chornobayivka, a suburb of Kherson. Living under occupation was difficult not only because of the ever-present danger, but also because of the humanitarian crisis.
“From the very first days of the war, a lot of Russian soldiers appeared in the village. They drove around in tanks, robbed grocery stores, smashed up the ATB supermarket and spent a week taking all the food out of there. Actually, they robbed everything like hell. They also ransacked private homes. They weren’t ashamed of anything, didn’t shy away from anything,” say the Kononenkos.
Read the story of a family from Chornobayivka
