00:10When, for example, we have a missile attack in the night, I'm driving from home to the spot on this
00:20car.
00:20So, yes. And usually I have also the child seat, like over there.
00:33I am Olena Kutsa. I am the head of the emergency response service in Ukrainian Red Cross Society.
00:43When I woke up on the 24th of February 2022, I just had the message from our previous head of
00:53emergency response.
00:54He asked if everybody is alive.
01:00He wrote that war is started.
01:06I just woke up my husband and said, oh my God, this has happened, so I need to go to
01:12work.
01:13I was on five months of my pregnancy and my husband said, what? Are you kidding me? And I said,
01:22no, I need to go.
01:24So, we just say goodbye for our home because we didn't know if the home will be anymore.
01:34And since that, two months, we lived here in office and worked.
01:45We slept with our sleeping bags just on the floor.
01:4925 volunteers lived here.
01:53We was like family, you know.
01:55We were like family, you know.
01:59Ukrainian Red Cross emergency response teams are responding on the missile attacks, transporting people with disabilities,
02:09evacuated people from the risky zones to the safer places.
02:15The emergency responder, this should be a person with highly motivation to helping people.
02:33The being of both mother and first responder during the war.
02:39Every time you decide if now you're more mother or now you're more responder.
02:46So, now you have time for your kid, for play, for reading the book.
02:54Or now you need to write in the report, calling somewhere and asking, how are you guys? Are you okay?
03:03Yeah, this is the hardest part. This is like balance that you never catch.
03:11Yeah.
03:18He understands that here now is war.
03:24He understands that when we hear the air alarm, we need to go to the shelter.
03:30He understands that, okay, there are existing bombs and drones that could make damage for our house.
03:42he asking about why planes are making bombs we are trying to explain him why
03:54but sometimes when I'm trying to explain why I I even don't know if I can answer for me about
04:03this
04:04why it's happening because it's hard to explain this my hopes for Ukrainian future it's the end of this
04:19war a lot of people wish to be with families wish to sleeping in the nights not to going to
04:30the
04:30shelters just have calm life as they planned before for Zahar's future it's of course that he
04:42will grow up and choose the the work that he will want and he will doing something that he is
04:56dreaming
04:56about
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