An simple medical exam would most likely suffice to diagnose what Lila Ogneva, inhabitant of Dytiatky, a small population of five hundred inhabitants situated on the limit Exclusion Zone around the Chernobyl plant, He suffers from deep psychological trauma. Has the Lost lookwalk dragging the feetsmoke a cigarette after another and when to type something on your mobilehis fingers tremble and sometimes he can’t even press the suitable application. She speaks in whispers, she can hardly be understood, in addition to appearing disoriented, not knowing what to do or where to complain.
Lila is in this state of emotional numbness practically from the first day of the war. Just hours after the attack by Kremlin troops began, this short, short silver hair lost her husband Victor35, and his son Dmitri14, when the van in which they were returning to the family home had a bad match on a nearby road. Around five in the afternoon of the same day the invasion began, when it was already dark, an armored BRT belonging to a russian column recently entered Ukrainian territory ran into the vehicle in which they were traveling spouse Y firstborn, opening fire immediately. Moments later, the attacking vehicle retraced its steps, and violently pushed the victims’ truck off the road, dragging it to the ditch and even reaching crush her.
“I don’t know what must have happened; it was an elevated van and maybe the headlights illuminated them,” Lila explains in a whisper. According to the photos that she keeps in the memory of your phoneLila has even been forced to contemplate the corpses of her husband and son in a state in which no one would ever want to see a to be loved. In addition, the bodies remained on the road for a whole day, abandoned to their fate in the middle of the war, and could only be recovered the next day thanks to his father-in-law anatoli grabbed a tractor and hit the road risking even life. “It all happened just 300 meters of the checkpoint” that gives entrance to the Exclusion Zone around the nuclear power plant, Lilac tells. “I had to hide the car because if the Russians had found it…” explains Anatoli, the victim’s father.
Lila at the moment doesn’t know what to do, or how to approach her future. “My husband worked as a tractor driver in the Exclusion Zone, and he was the one who brought home the salary.” A daughter has remained in charge of her, and a house with a small family land with a garden included and an enthusiastic and affectionate dog, completely oblivious to the family tragedy that just happened in your foster home. Not receiving at the moment no pension or financial aid from any Russian state entity or institution, wait for normality to return to the town to start looking for work. “You have to get your life back, and then I’ll look for something; anything; I’ve stayed no tickets of money,” he acknowledges.
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Convinced that the complaint you have filed with the Prosecutor’s office in Ukraine isn’t going to be enough, Lila is even willing to accompany the informants’ entourage newcomer to Dytiatky until the house of his in-lawswhere the remains of the van attacked, converted not only in scrap material, but also in eventual prosecution to document a possible war crime. “No monetary compensation will return my son to me; I will fix this with an automatic rifle“, Anatoli curses, leaning with difficulty on two crutches. The deceased’s mother cannot resist the scene, she bursts into tears and has to go home as soon as the tarpaulin of the vehicle is raised, which has the entire front part, including the hood and roof, sinking mercilessly on the driver’s seat.
Lila remains motionless, looking down at the ground and finishing a cigarette. They have told her that most likely, those who killed her husband and her son are also already dead, since they were part of the first Russian armored incursion into the region, which was annihilated when it tried to conquer the town of Ivankiv, a handful of kilometers heading south. But none of this seems to be of any consolation.
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Eddie is an Australian news reporter with over 9 years in the industry and has published on Forbes and tech crunch.