Touching story from Ukraine: All humans are traumatized

A man with his four children has been forced to leave the settlement, leaving his wife behind in a country affected by the bombing. It's a real and touching story that should keep us all aware of the consequences of war and the need for it to stop as soon as possible.

A man was with his four children, a 10-year-old boy and three younger daughters. He seemed terrified. He told me: “We've been standing in a bunker for eight days, without water, without electricity, no lights, no heat, no cell phone waves. Here I came with a minivan from a neighbor of mine. My wife was with me and the kids in the minibus, but she had to come down to get something at home for the kids. I told him to hurry because the van was going to leave any minute. The vehicle was launched and it did not come in time”.

The man faced a difficult choice, stay in the van, and continue traveling with the children to Zaporizia (a town in Ukraine), leaving his wife at a bombing site, or going out of the van with the children to search for his wife. We found him crying in the center of the city of Zaporzyna because he had no news from his wife for three days. His kids didn't have their mother. They came toward me, one of the girls was wearing a pink jacket. It was beautiful, though polluted, since it's obvious that you stay in a bunker for eight days, you can be in your best state.

She asked me for gestures because I don't understand Russian so I could help her close her jacket. It's been too hard for me to think they were without their mother. Their father kept saying: I didn't have batteries on my cell phone, that's why he didn't call me, but he's going to call me pretty soon, looking forward to his phone. All these people are traumatized. This is the trauma of the entire population”. Emma Confession