Some women have thrown themselves into volunteering. Others are consumed by child care, financial worries and family expectations.
KHARKIV, Ukraine — Yuliia Sirenko spent the summer alone in her apartment in the bombed-out city of Kharkiv, her heart pulledSeptember loomed, and she had a decision to make: Stay to keep supporting her husband, Yurii, as he battled Russian troops in the east. Or go west, joining the young daughter she’d taken to safety several months earlier.
“They feel guilty. They feel they cannot complain,” said Kateryna Cherepkha, the president of La Strada Ukraine, a Kyiv-based women’s organization. “I thought it would be hard for me to stay here,” she said. But after her husband left, she realized the alternative would be worse. So she, 13-year-old Mariia and 15-year-old Illia stayed put in their small apartment in the Kyiv suburb of Vyshneve. “I felt that he needs support — when we are here, when we are always in touch, when we can do something for Ukraine,” she explained.
In the lull, Arziaieva described missing her husband “whenever I have a free time … when I see his things, when I am going to bed all by myself.” She started to tear up. Her daughter went in for a hug.Other mothers, such as 31-year-old Tamara Bivalina, have decided they cannot feel safe even far from the fighting.was born by Caesarean section in early March, and the next day Russian shelling hit close to the hospital in her hometown of Dnipro.
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