It was a grim year for 13-year-old Ukrainian Veronika Trubitsyna and her sister, Anastasiia.
in just over a month. Agnesa asked Kateryna, who lived an hour away in Novokrasnyanka, to come to her home.
“We were afraid that at any time, we would be hit. If she [mother] hadn't got problems with her heart and pressure, she wouldn't have gone anywhere from home,” said Veronika. Just days after living with her uncle, Veronika’s family moved in with her grandmother, who lived in Ryazan, a town over four hours away, and even further from Ukraine. “We lived in our grandmother’s house for a week. Then the police came and took us away and put us in a dormitory for displaced people in Ryazan. This was done so that immigrants from Ukraine did not live freely but were able to be observed and forced to make [Russian] documents as soon as possible.
Blinken estimated that “Russian authorities have interrogated, detained, and forcibly deported between 900,000 and 1.6 million Ukrainian citizens, including 260,000 children, from their homes to Russia.” Making Veronika’s family one of the hundreds of thousands that were forcibly deported in the months following the invasion.
“At the beginning, in autumn, she almost did not get out of bed,” Veronika said. “She had strong cardiac asthma, and her legs hurt so much that she could not walk. And her blood pressure was always 220-180,”where stroke or a loss of kidney function can occur. According to Kateryna, their grandmother and uncle were not told anything as Veronika and Anastasiia were taken away, only that “they said they could not legally take the girls from [the orphanage].”
“We were not bullied as all the children in the house, as well as the teachers were all afraid of my Nastya. When they said something to us that we didn't like, they had no desire to mess with us. I could not stand up for myself," she said of her older sister.
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