“I stood in the store for half an hour because the russians kept targeting the gun machines at me”

Sonia was a schoolgirl when the war started. She remembers to the minute all four explosions that occurred shortly before five o'clock in the morning, which marked the beginning of a full-scale war and the end of her childhood. She has lived through a lot - shelling, occupation, humanitarian disaster, intimidation, abuse, and “purges”. Sonia managed to leave the occupied territory only in September 2022.