Vika, 12 years old, summer camp participant

»My parents and I live in Artemivsk - no - it's now Bakhmut*.
When there were shootings in the centre of Bakhmut, we hid in our basement. We had prepared this place and there was a bed and food. There was only one cellar room for several flats. I used to have singing lessons besides school, but now I have stopped them because I have a few problems at school.
I fear that the war will escalate to Bakhmut, but apart from that I don't miss anything here.
I would like to work as a speech therapist in the future, because I like to talk with children.«

* More than 900 Ukrainian villages and cities with Russian names were renamed in accordance with so-called decommunization laws.

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