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The Monument for Fallen Children

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My mum nowadays, she lives in the centre

and it's absolutely gorgeous.

So it's important to mention that we

At the beginning of the war,

you know, under the, in the underground,

The parks, we have

So we really, you know,

Stay close to the nature.

We have zoos inside the parks.

Before, I don't know if it's still working

dolphins and the sea animals for the kids.

So people can go and have

They can go outside of the Kharkiv,

and they can see there another zoo

And which is important that

alarm, you know, when the alarms start.

So, you know, notice there is

There might be some rockets or missiles

and you're watching, like,

the lions, like, oh, this is beautiful.

Life just, you know, continues to go on.

And then

somewhere and there is like a fire.

Or well, you know,

And you just realise like,

And people continue to live

In a way they got used to that,

the accommodation,

the city, you know, they still

for free for everybody.

So you didn't have to pay to get there

you can get in the underground for free.

You can select some sort of shelter.

You can stay there for how much you need.

Or the transportation there.

Again, you can go to the one part

in the underground,

The zoos, the parks, they are for free

balanced life and this so you can explore,

You don't have to pay for that because if

to have an easy access to get out.

Yes.

So it's very— it's like

It's like one of the biggest square,

or something like that.

And it has a lot of universities.

One of them, I finished that university.

It's amazing place, very old building.

And next to the square there is a theatre

And I was visiting that theatre as well.

And in front of that theatre nowadays

it's a private business,

not like nightclubs because we have curfew

So you can see there are cars, people

But in front of that club right now

there's a monument.

I wish I had taken, you know,

But the monument is about two kids.

They're holding their heads together.

And it's next to the

So it's all connected.

And that monument stays for

born,

live, but who were born because of Russia.

And every time I go there,

kids being, you know, killed,

dead by the rockets or whatever,

And runs in the next street,

And you live with that.

It was like, I understand

People have to live, people have to laugh,

But on the other hand,

you know,

be adults, to live, to go to the

Some of them just, you know,

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