[000:00:00;00] and called my husband why are you why are you calling me he says i wanted you to sleep for as long as possible and not know that we have become a war this way man i like it is a real horror but i know that you felt intuitively that the war would still start unlike many ukrainians who, let's say, reacted differently to the news a few months, even weeks before the full-scale invasion of russia, and for the most part did not pack an alarming suitcase and did not think that such a big hot war was possible after all. however, you felt and even asked her son to fly to cyprus just in case, on the eve of a full-scale invasion, tell me about these feelings now, by the way, he will hear

information that he did not know before. and about 10 days ago, i created a family chat. and where were dad, mom and my husband, as my husband was also a conductor, he was on a business trip at that time and we had such a family meeting, she said that i feel that there will be an invasion. and at least my son should be with me because i cannot bear the complete separation of the family at such a moment, and we accepted the decision that we buy him a ticket, er, parents helped to pack things and 16 my son is new arrivals under the pretext that we will spend a little time with him together because we haven't traveled anywhere for a long time, we haven't been together, it's cool that your intuition worked or how did you do it you call it, well, most likely that's because even acquaintances told me that you made it up to yourself somehow, i say no, i feel that at least my son i have to somehow protect from this if it

happens, but if it doesn't, thank god . unfortunately, it happened, well, on february 24, you learned that after all, a full-scale invasion has begun, the war has begun, what are the first steps, the first actions. did you want to return to ukraine somehow to reunite with your family, or on the contrary , were you glad that you were safe ? what were you doing ? you can't take steps. especially since you're not there. the first thing we did was go to the church of st. lazarus and i read a prayer for probably 34 hours. was family

he called again, they made the decision of the whole family what to do next, they decided that for now we are only an institute, everything is for such children . to get to cyprus , you have the right to receive, as in other countries of the european union, a temporary shelter that guarantees you free housing if it is available depending on the region, this accommodation in hotels is mostly often dense there is also free food, but i can’t guarantee it, but now ira’s house, maybe we can find out. is it everywhere? does it depend on the city, on the settlement in which you settle? also , this temporary shelter gives you the right to free employment, education and

medicine, but as far as i know iryna’s money- do you use social housing, why? well, they gave us support for our road and now we live in an apartment with our friends , that's why we didn't use free housing, but yes, there really is free housing. to begin with, you need to register and issue you have such a document as a tempitek what if a yellow yellow paper is issued and according to this paper later plastic is issued only with the presence of this paper you can check in at hotels that provide free accommodation for ukrainians cost to enter three meals at the moment as far as i know they are constantly updated in the hotel that accept ukrainians, sometimes they are overcrowded but sometimes places are vacated, hotels are in vainapi , paphos, about tarasi, and one was opened so long ago not far from klimasov

, regarding education, education is provided to children in in greek schools, there are two types of education here: in paid schools or in free schools, but education is conducted in greek, unfortunately, in them, everything is paid for, but this year we have such a volunteer center , which was founded by our ukrainian anna sushko and this year they opened a kindergarten for ukrainians in the city of larnaca , which for less, for a smaller surcharge, but you have to pay, will accept ukrainian children , as far as i know. thanks for this information , ira. i will note that you live directly in

larnytsia now, and what is interesting to me in general is this kind of phenomenon, which is not about poland , this is not canada. where there are huge ukrainian diasporas, this is a small island, and it differs somewhat from other countries of the european union, in fact, and with its somewhat pro-russian position, which we will talk about later. however, there is such the ukrainian community is active, we constantly see the news , went to a rally, a charity fair, a charity bicycle race, some other gatherings of ukrainians who support our state, who demand some kind of help and where about and the same they collect funds for the needs of the motherland, iro, you are also an active participant. and together with your eldest son, who is 18 years old, you constantly participate in rallies and volunteer, and i know that the first rally took place already on february 25 in larnica, the war has just begun. so i would like

you to remember these are the first emotions, the first impressions, how did you manage to gather the ukrainians, and in fact, there is an incredibly friendly diaspora here, and in 2017 , the ukrainian ukrainians association was created in the ukrainian language of priozian friendship, there are chats in the ukrainians in cyprus telegram channel, i remember the 24th we were added at that time, at that time there were 600 subscribers, now there are about 11,000, according to the latest data, about 17,000 arrived on the island, but i think there are already more, and here it is 24 in the evening , messages began to arrive that we need to leave, we need to start doing something, act 25 was accepted the decision that we will go out in larnytsia on the embankment and the press was invited to the rally, there were representatives of the ukrainian

community, there were also representatives of the cypriot community, and the wives and the calls that were married to cypriots who were able to help functioning. yes, and the talks with the press gathered around us. i think so. there were about 300 people. there were many with children. they were all a little confused, but somehow united . they immediately felt that we are what we are, that we will stand until the last time. ira also wants to remember and talk about a very an important rally that took place under the parliament and what about when our president volodymyr zelenskyy and his cypriot colleague communicated via video link and then many ukrainians gathered under this

parliament also with their demands and even the president of cyprus, i know that he went out to our ukrainians to our people and gave a speech and it impressed you, you wrote about it on social networks and told me , please tell us, for our viewers, it was really the same impressive and sensitive moment, and the day before when it started the meeting came out first, the representatives of the parliament and they passed our uh our meeting very carefully looked at the posters paid attention and somehow it happened that they stopped right next to where i was standing because there are still girls in our group such a flash mob was made in shirts with bags and balaclavas on their heads and he looked at us and said that we are with you and we understand your pain because we experienced it in 1974, so we will do everything possible

to support your country a we did, the girls of the organizer put on the loudspeaker a live broadcast of our president, president nikos anastasia, and after that we had such a small prepared flash mob, we had to all lie down on the ground and when they would leave the parliament so that everyone could see that in this way we depict that we are being killed every day, so the audience can see themselves on their screens, this is such a performance, and at some point we heard a car stop and the press began to run quickly, and again somehow it ended up next to us, there on the floor is my son, you can see where the press is near him and he says i covered my head because i was very afraid that i would not be stepped on, well, on the needle. and you are the president, and he did not just address the press , he addressed us, he spoke very loudly, he

did not say what i just had of rice with yours president and i keep all the promises and i promise you that i will support and help you and i sympathize with you as a people that you are going through such a tragedy now, it was really impressive and we believe and we see every day the support of cyprus, well, regarding the immigrants, those who are here, but in fact we talked about the fact that cyprus is somewhat of a pro-russian state, and here is how your impressions among the local population support ukrainians , how do they treat you? are there still more russians because it is a very well-known offshore zone, firstly

, secondly, there is a lot of real estate there, they are richer russian billionaires have been buying up. even now, have you come here, do you meet them on the streets, or have you had any adventures ? well, there really are a lot of russian citizens here , everything you say. it is true that we are fortunately in a place where there are fewer of them. but sometimes there are such the situations are not pleasant enough, well, this usually happens at rallies when we hold rallies. yes , families pass by and some shout slogans or some unpleasant words. it is really unpleasant, but thanks to the ukrainian community and stability, everyone takes it in stride, let's say so we are reacting, we are conflicting in order not to cause even greater aggression , support from the cypriots, er, well, it is divided, indeed, there are those who support

the russians, er, but there are also those who support ukraine from the first day, because i am again i will repeat, they are older people, they still remember the events of 1974, you direct your energy in the right direction, this is volunteering , you are very active in this, go with your son. please tell me how you organized yourself and i know that you even received an award from ambassador of ukraine to cyprus for your volunteering activities, how do you gather and what do you usually collect funds for? is it ammunition? is it medicine? some kind of humanitarian aid. what girls were here ? far from here ? they continue to do this now. and they organized the main

mass, which was already there at the time of the start of this war. in fact, there are really many of us, and locally, everyone is in different places, but in each city there is a certain center. the main volunteers who are engaged in this activity are separately created groups where pre-measures are discussed, how to organize, how to gather together for piles of ammunition, another group is engaged separately, which is also concentrated exclusively on this gathering, we conduct it in different ways, indeed , fairs are also held and good in we have such singing evenings where we gather in every place and collect for the support of the armed forces, there are also donations from cypriot businessmen, we are also supported by families, even 12 quite

large sums are collected by any means possible the measures by which we can do this involve everyone in us and children take an active part and adults too. do you think more is collected at the expense of our ukrainians who are there or at the expense of the cypriots? it seems to me that it is at the expense of the cypriots. but again, the fees are held well, not only ukrainians, 11 foreigners, but uh, well, these are the most frequent gatherings, yes, they are singing every sunday, we girls gather from saturday , sometimes and several times a week , we also gather suitable foreigners. in this way , we get to know our culture, we wear clothes

our yes, embroidered wreaths, by the way, all our props are at home, we see, and we make bracelets, and in this way , whoever donates, we give bracelets . a lot of people come and express their world of condolences and donations, soldiers. i understand that they send you photos, video reports, gratitude for the fact that you are so active and help the motherland while abroad . thermal imager to a man whose wife is in cyprus and who is also actively involved in volunteering, and i know that your husband is also in the ranks of the armed

forces of ukraine , we will talk about this in a few minutes. and about your son, this is very important because at such a young age it is quite difficult to leave his friends' house to readjust, he is studying online at the law faculty in college but already works in cyprus although he 18, but he already works at two jobs. as far as i know, he works as a bartender, a bartender, a waiter and also in a barbershop. he works. please tell me how he feels in general and what kind of psychological state he has. is he comfortable being abroad and how does he i managed to get a job. it is interesting. can he join me because he is in the field? i will

be very happy . and our viewers will be more super. two months, these were the first two months in my life when i completely immersed myself in myself, closed in on myself, but when the rallies began, it gave such a jolt. for me, i had to understand what if together with you, if all of us ukrainians put down our hands and be just equal to sit on our group abroad, nothing will change because with every rally, we bring information to the people , we show them that the war is going on, the war is not over, and that it is not just some crazy

videos, something has been edited and it is all a lie, what is it it is true that people are dying, people are becoming homeless, they have nowhere to go, and we have to spread this information at the expense of work, uh, how can i say it? at first, i adapted, uh, i was only all the time at rallies, with some kind of help, i tried to do everything as much as possible what can i do to help, but then i realized that i need to calculate and i need to make some money for myself . that's why i need to look for a job and i just started looking on the internet for some vacancies, but at that time my english was very bad, more precisely , speaking in english. and i understand that i need to to tighten everything one by one that's why at least to tighten up my english after that i started to tighten up new acquaintances started to tighten up i just started to get to know

cypriots with uh guys from other countries and practice my english uh and with this practice new acquaintances began working sergey a gre it is not necessary to know tskov, because these languages ​​are also common there, or in english, and more, after all, these languages ​​are common here, but uh, in general, uh, everyone here uses english, and if there weren't any, that's why these first three months were for me were so hard because i started to tighten up, it was easy to pronounce, the shell community provided support and created such times for children of support and there were free courses. i went to these courses. super. and you managed to find friends, you say you talked a lot with

cypriots, so among them, let's say their mentality suits our ukrainian you can be friends with them if you're honest. my opinion is of course they are, well, i can't compare them with our teenagers. i don't have any friends here at the moment. i have acquaintances and generally these acquaintances . they are ukrainians or, er, guys from some other countries eh from britain eh from france and in general eh i don't communicate here so dearly they are not for me the people with whom i would like to have some really very friendly relations you should they they are teenagers in them eh the main thing

- it's a walk for me, i don't have time for parties because our teenagers are more mature or more focused on the development of the future, that's not cool serhiyovych wanted to ask, after all, you are a representative of the younger generation and often young people want to leave ukraine to live somewhere in other european countries to seek a better fate in you had the opportunity to compare life in the european union and life in ukraine. what do you like better? would you like to return home? would you still look for some career growth there and stay? to live if i'm honest, i would return to ukraine

. i have this desire every day. i am more inclined to return to ukraine and i will build my career there, by the way, this is not only my son's opinion, and every time we talk with teenagers and children who find here with their parents, more and more information about the situation is that we are ambassadors and representatives of ukraine in in other countries, and we are here in order to gain some experience of our own and then share it, because there really are some moments that we would like to introduce there . it is necessary to know the greek language, because here in the tourist area everyone speaks english, but children in schools study greek and this expands their knowledge and the ability

to communicate, then i am very glad that we have such a young generation. thank you, serhii, for sharing your experience you are now in cyprus , it is really pleasing that you are so patriotic and determined to return to your homeland after the victory. ira, when your husband voiced his desire to go fight and defend our ukraine . how did you accept it or did you not resist? after all, you were obviously worried like all families, you know because of my family and our love for everything related to our country and traditions to some patriotic moments. my husband

immediately joined the territorial defense of our village, but later conversations began that he did not see himself being here, he wanted to go further. and he was probably already preparing me for this moment in may i went home for a few weeks two weeks ago and he already expressed his wish that after this trip when i return to cyprus he will still go to the armed forces of course there was anxiety, but as a wife and as a person who made a promise i said that i support you in any of your decisive and if you accepted it, i am really proud of you. he said that i want our children to grow up under the peaceful sky of ukraine. thank you and your husband to all our defenders for defending us and expelling

the russian invaders from our land. i i note here that iryna's husband is also a flight attendant by profession, they met at work in the sky, it's really such a beautiful love. and by the way , your meeting was very extreme. and for this miracle you have been waiting for quite a long time, many years, and it seems to me that this is possible symbolically that you became pregnant during the war, because now we need to improve the situation and give birth to more ukrainians. tell me how you found out about your pregnancy and how you told my husband was started from such a moment and i remembered seryozha's words, he was a little smaller when we met from there with friends and he told everyone that my parents are special because ordinary parents meet on earth and we

met in heaven, and so in may i went home and i became pregnant and found out about it already while on a business trip. of course, it is filled with happiness and joy because we waited for it for a long time, we prayed for a long time and fortunately the lord blessed such a moment of testing, but we are happy and even had the opportunity to meet in october. i i went home again and we had two and a half days that we spent together and enjoyed it. now we are waiting for the future of the cossack , you are fine. you told me that it will be a boy. we are very happy. we especially need boys and iro. i understand that it must happen soon, it must appear in the world, you will give birth in

cyprus, tell me a little literally, but briefly . how to quickly find a good obstetrician in a foreign country, is childbirth free there? and in general, do you worry the same because of the fact that it's a foreign country, i'm not worried because i have tremendous support next to me, he took on such a male part , he supports me a lot, and i looked for doctors based on the reviews , my friends live here, and a friend of mine, she gave birth to this very doctor whom i went to now i'm standing on my face, we still have telegram chats for mothers where we share useful information where we communicate where there are no clichés or reviews on the internet about which you don't know whether they are valid or not where mothers share who gave birth in

who was on the registry, yes, ukrainians are provided with free support and you can give birth for free at the general hospital , but there are also paid consultations at the clinic. and when you give birth , you are legally registered and the doctor changes for free every time. that is, you do not know who you go to there, for example in the hospital has 5 doctors and each time you have a consultation with a different doctor and anyone can give birth if you are standing in front of a private clinic and then you go directly to a selected doctor and he consults you accompany you to give birth with him and i am very grateful to my doctor to my doctor to my lady i she what happened so that she studied in kharkiv and that is why every time i go to an appointment the first thing she does is she asks how you are psychologically and how your family is and because of everything everything in is normal with your husband, that is, we still have a person who supports me a lot and for me this is very important , we have literally 30 seconds to finish iro, i

know that you are currently writing a master's degree in psychology specifically about how to experience separation and during the war with the family. maybe you are short any advice to all women and families who are waiting for defenders, defenders of our promuravla, the question applies i want to tell you , regardless of whether you are a woman or a man or a child, believe because it is faith that keeps us on these if we believe believe in victory then help as my son said be what to do donate don't go to rallies get distracted support each other we will definitely win and there is no room for excitement thank you very much iryna nechay and her son serhiy were the heroes of my program today refugees with anzhelika sozonenko i i wish ira an easy and successful