“She saw out of the corner of her eye her relatives lying on the ground, and it downed on her that they all were dead”

All her relatives died in a single day. Even the basement was not safe. A missile hit their house in Vuhledar in Donetsk Oblast. 10-year-old Veronika was the only survivor. She still has pieces of shrapnel in her head and spine. Veronika underwent several surgeries and had to learn how to hold a spoon and paint again. Mental wounds and pain are more difficult to cure...