The first lady of Ukraine, Elena Zelenskaya, in an interview with CNN said that she and her children did not see her husband and father for two months of the war.. In the early days, the president lived in his office, and his family was forbidden to stay there to ensure their safety..

Since then, the fighting has moved further away from Kyiv, which allowed the family to get together, but not for an extended period of time..

Their experience, according to Zelenskaya, is not unique.. She calculated that half of all Ukrainian families were torn apart by the war.

“Our relationship is on pause, like all Ukrainians,” she said.. “We, like every family, are waiting for a reunion in order to be together again”.

Zelenskaya said she and others are trying to cope by " She compared herself to a photograph from Borodyanka, a city east of Kyiv occupied by Russian troops in the early days of the war..

“The picture, according to Zelenskaya, shows a bombed-out apartment building, on the surviving wall of which there was only one object left - a wardrobe.

“I’m like that closet on Borodyanka,” Zelenskaya told CNN. "