Sixteen-year-old Veronika from Zlatopil in Ukraine's Kharkiv region remembers the terror of February 24, 2022 - the day Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. According to a report in Svenska Dagbladet, her father quickly left to help with the defense effort, leaving Veronika and her mother at home in uncertainty. The war has taken much from her family, including her father who reportedly died in combat.
Veronika, now in her final year of secondary school in her hometown of Zlatopil, has been separated from her school class due to the war. She has grown accustomed to having lessons online, though she misses her classmates. 'The war has taken so much from my family,' Veronika said.
The war has taken so much from my family. My plans, our sense of security, our home as it used to be.
' The personal account highlights the human cost of the conflict that began with Russia's invasion four years ago.