Tatiana Pizniak lived in Sumy in north-eastern Ukraine her whole life. The morning of February 24 left her and her whole city in shock. Tatiana couldn’t believe she was witnessing war in the 21st century.
“I got a phone call with the short message: ‘Tanks are bombing. War!’ Suddenly, all the terrible stories of my grandmother about war and famine flashed in my memory.”
That day, missile strikes were launched across Ukraine. “No one will be able to convey what the people of Ukraine have experienced and are experiencing,” Tatiana says. “Sitting with my sick mother, who had been diagnosed with cancer, under artillery shelling and rocket attacks… I prayed to God to help me, my mother and my family.”
Tatiana, an Associate Professor at Sumy National University, filled out the forms required to find a sponsor in the UK, but with everything going on forgot about her application until she received an email one day saying a sponsor
