A 20-year-old woman living in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, where the offensive from the Russian army is intensifying, testified to the tense situation in the field in an online interview with NHK.
Anastasia Grigorchuk, a 20-year-old music teacher living in Kyiv, is engaged in the activities of a "territorial defense unit" in which citizens participate, such as delivering medicines and groceries to the elderly who cannot go shopping by themselves during the day.
In an interview on the 17th, she heard three explosions in just about 10 minutes at the beginning of the interview, anxiously confirming the outside of her window.
Mr. Grigorchuk said, "I try to keep away from important bases such as big stations and bridges because they can be attacked at any time. The beginning of the morning is full of anxiety and the mental limit is approaching, but life in the war I can't waste the death of the Ukrainians who dropped me. I want to fight to protect my freedom. "
On top of that, the reason why he stays in Kyiv without evacuating abroad is "We young people have the intention to do everything that can help even if it is dangerous to stay here. I have a healthy body. I want to support soldiers who fight for the country as much as possible, and volunteer to deliver food and medicine to the elderly. "