The Martsenyuk family from Odessa, an elderly couple with a disability, decided not to stand aside from helping fellow countrymen in wartime, says the Current Time TV channel.

There are two small houses on their site: in one, the spouses lived on their own, in the other they rented rooms to builders. Now, instead of builders, three dozen migrants from the Kherson, Kharkov and Nikolaev regions live there, where active hostilities are taking place. Spouses do not take money from them.

" And then, when the war began, they decided: why this room would be empty? Let people live, - says Vladimir Martsenyuk, the owner of the house. - People need help.! If we don't help, we won't win. And if we support each other, we will win faster"

Martsenyuks say they are ready to accept more refugees - there are free beds. They don’t take money for rent and utilities from the guests, and they also don’t count on state assistance for accommodating migrants: Vladimir and his wife say that they don’t have the opportunity to go to the authorities and submit documents.

Lolita is 12 years old, she is a displaced person from Kherson occupied by Russia. With her mother Larisa and younger brother Misha, the girl left the occupied Kherson at the end of April - into complete obscurity. Her mother says that the family had to leave the two-room apartment and hometown for the safety of the children.. The girl hung drawings over her bed: she says they remind her of home and life there before the arrival of Russian troops.

" At night, when we were bombed, we saw the glow, saw how the rockets were flying, they bombed us so that our beds shook,” she says.. - The soldiers rode on BTEers, shot, it’s very scary there. They stole cars, cars are stolen from the police. We had a house, they took out blankets, sofas"

“There was a moment: we were told that the connection appeared near the post office,” says her mother Larisa Petrichenko (the Russian military jammed mobile communications in the occupied areas). - Everyone went to catch a connection in order to contact relatives. A car drove past, an armored personnel carrier with machine gunners: they saw that there were a lot of people there, and they just started shooting people in the legs..

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“We wanted to take the children out, because we didn’t know how it would be there, what would come to their minds. And no one knows.

We left to be on the territory of free Ukraine,"

" I never wanted to go to school! "

Natalia and Oksana are also migrants from the Kherson region. " But we each have our own family, and we are not at home, they say. “So the plans are only home.”.

IDPs live together as a big family: celebrate holidays, look after all the children together, share experiences. But most of all they dream of visiting each other after the victory.. The hosts who gave them shelter also promise to come to visit everyone..