
Inna with her two youngest: Blythswood Care’s Ukraine appeal is helping families to survive the prolonged crisis in Ukraine
‘We don’t want to go abroad’
Reporting back on the Ukraine Appeal
Inna isn’t going anywhere. Despite the hardship which the mother-of-three has experienced in recent years, she is determined that her future is at home, in Ukraine.
“We don’t want to go abroad,” she told Tanya Shpygunova from Serve Now, who brought her a food package to help sustain her family. “We cannot imagine living anywhere else.”
Inna lives with her husband and three children and her grandmother in a tiny apartment in Irpin, a city just west of Kyiv. When the Russians invaded that part of northern Ukraine in March of 2022, Inna and her family endured ten days without gas, water or electricity and with barely any food. They melted snow to drink, before seeking refuge in a church in a safer district.
It was especially hard for Inna, who had received treatment for cancer, and for her husband who had been wounded in 2014 when war started in Donbass. “We are extremely thankful to you for bringing us food and for helping us to survive,” Inna told Tanya. “I am very grateful to people who care for us and are not indifferent to our suffering.”