Valya and Volodymyr spent a whole year living in the trailer next to their destroyed house. Russian troops hit it three times. Once with an air missile and twice with artillery. Everything that they had was destroyed, their rabbit house, chicken house and their personal home.

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Valya wasn’t there when everything happened but Volodymyr was. He was sleeping in his bed when the house was hit. He doesn’t remember how he escaped, but he is alive. After Ukrainian Military pushed the Russian troops from Chernihiv region Valya came back and they spend whole winter together in a trailer with bullet holes instead of windows and plastic as the only barrier to the elements.

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Everyday as we were building, Valya and Volodymyr came out to ask if we need any help or to say thank you. She cried over and over. Crying because she couldn’t believe that she will be living in the house that she can call her own, her home.