Despite the mass evacuation, about several hundred people remain in Velyka Pysarivka. Most of them are elderly people. And they all need a retail outlet in the village, because they still must buy food and other basic necessities. Besides them, there are also people who left the village but visit their homes to cultivate their gardens and clean up their yards.
During the war, every day can be your last. You can’t postpone your life any longer. Viktoriya says that people have started to buy things they used to do without, even though they really wanted to. After the terrible events in the spring, the locals reconsidered their priorities.
Read the story of Viktoriya Kondratenko, a saleswoman at the Viktoriya store in Velyka Pysarivka, the Sumy region.