Milana Dobrovolska 15, female from Kyiv

I am Milana. I am 15 years old. I am from Kyiv. I have a wonderful family. My mother works as a teacher, my father is a coach, my older brother plays football, and my younger brother goes to wrestling. I like it when we spend time together. We can go cycling, watch movies and walk together. I have been dancing professionally for 10 years. I do acrobatics and learn English at courses. I love horses and dogs. I have many friends and I like to communicate with people. I like my life, but war has come to our country. For almost three years now, Russia has been destroying my Ukraine and killing ordinary people. Many cities have been destroyed. Many people have left. When the war began, my family left for the village, but even there we could not live peacefully because we heard explosions all the time. We returned and I go to school. But the constant air raid warnings prevent me from studying normally. We have constant power outages and I often do my homework in the dark. Sometimes at night we can wake up from explosions, it is the air defense that shoots down drones that fly at us every day. We have already forgotten how to live without war.