"The Russians watched how we take the medicine holding on the sight," - Kherson volunteer

In the past, she has been engaged in journalistic and advertising, volunteer in parallel since 2008 (helped orphans). After the open invasion of the Russian Federation, she launched an initiative of assistance in Kherson. Despite the difficult conditions of occupation, activists facilitate hospitals and residents with the necessary medicines. Ukrainians do not cooperate with the invaders and do not use Russian medicines, so it was sometimes dangerous to get it.

Once at the beginning of the war in Kherson, when domestic drugs were still remained in single pharmacies, Irina with volunteers came to one of these points. "We got to the right pharmacy, near which there was a armored personnel carrier with the rashists, who watched how we took the medicine, holding on the sight. Salikhov confesses that being a volunteer in an occupied city is really scary.

Volunteers did not have to advertise the help of the military, most activists did not want to "glow", so Irina took responsibility - published reports, led live broadcasts on social networks, communicated with the media. Because of such publicity, the woman and her husband had to leave her own apartment and live with different acquaintances. All the time it was necessary to move, otherwise it was possible to get into the hands of the invaders.

"There was a situation where I call me near at midnight people who are responsible for safety:" Have you grown up there?! Tomorrow in the morning you were not in this apartment. "We left at the 7th, and at the 12th yard came the Russian military, on the list chewed the numbers They who did not live here before the war, ”the volunteer said. It was necessary to move not only activists, but also the headquarters and the composition.