of the full-scale invasion and conversations with the occupiers, the family of novokokhiv woman olesya zhuzha lived in the occupation for 5 months. on february 24, the woman was woken up by explosions at 5 am. people thought that everything that was happening would last a maximum of a week. says olesya. my mother taught her the balts. then i lived in her house there. on february 25, ukrainians still in the ukrainian military came to her and said that either hide in the basement or leave, and they left. she followed my brother to a nearby village 11 km away. my mother is 70 years old. she walked this whole time in march. two russian soldiers approached olesya near the store. tell me why so little . first of all, we didn’t call you. you are leaving with machine guns again, two months of occupation, we realized that all this is a long time coming. olesya's family applied for free departure from novaya kakhovka. they waited for two and a half months when they left through the gray zone. they were afraid that they would be shot at. in general, we had such an explosion of emotions. we cried again.