In March 2024, the Russians began to destroy the Sumy region, first of all, the Velyka Pysarivka community. The shelling was simply devastating. Smart bombs flew in every day, and explosions never seemed to stop. Yulia’s school was hit by what is said to be the heaviest bomb of the war and was almost destroyed. The town center was methodically destroyed. People from the villages and Pysarivka were evacuated by buses and cars, and where shelling and bombing had already destroyed roads and bridges, people were taken out on foot – it was dangerous to stay in the villages that were being shelled.
Read the story of 19-year-old Yulia Lahuta from the Sumy region
