Oksana and her family fled as quickly as possible on Tuesday, August 6. They did not know that Ukrainian regular forces entered Russia for the first time nor that the bombings to which the Russian army subjected its people, separated by about 11 kilometers from the border, were the answer.
“It was 9 a.m. when the first glider bomb fell on the city,” says Oksana, a mother of two girls. The brutality of the attack was “very terrifying, much more” than that of a regular bombing. So much so that they immediately understood that they had to flee. “Our neighbor first took his children away in the car, then came back for me, my sister and my family,” he explains.