Valentyna Khomivna Veselova will turn 62 in July. She has spent almost all of her conscious life, with the exception of a short period, in her home village of Khrinivka in the border area in the Chernihiv region. nd it is only about two kilometers from there to the intersection where the borders of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus meet. On the first day of the all-out war, Khrinivka was among the first to come under the enemy merciless artillery fire.
Read how Valentyna managed to survive the Russian offensive, about moving to another village and her dreams in the article by Svitlana Tomash.