Olha had not left the operating room for 8 days since February 24. On the first day of the full-scale Russian invasion, 23 soldiers were taken to the hospital at once.
On the morning of March 4, the hospital was bombed. They were told that those who were able must leave. She came home, and everyone was in the basement. She did not remember how she had gotten there, but she remembered her son crying.
They spent 18 days in the basement: 100 people, including 30 children. They started falling ill. A child was accidentally scalded with boiling water. Olha ran through a storm of bullets to reach the military. Members of Azov were standing nearby. They gave her medicine. She had to support everyone somehow…
Then the marines came. They helped a lot, gave children stew, cookies, and most importantly - water. Before that, they had been drinking water from batteries.
On March 14, the house was bombed, but the basement remained intact. Then Russians came, lined all of them up and forced the men to undress, Olha lost her temper, she was screaming...bastards!
When the Russists started cleaning the apartments, they put a helmet with a camera on a Ukrainian who lived in their house and let him into the apartment first.
He opened the door by himself, went into the apartment, and walked around the perimeter. They sat by the computer downstairs and watched. After he said that everything was clean, they went in and checked all the closets. The man was not wearing a bulletproof vest. In other words, if the apartment was mined, he would have exploded first, and only then would the Russians have entered the apartment.
