Ukrainian-SQ-MSF Supports Traumatized Community in Ukraine’s Yahidne Village

MSF has been running mobile clinics to provide medical and mental health care to people impacted by the conflict, including to more than 50 villages in Chernihiv oblast, north of the capital Kyiv. Yahidne village, in the south of Chernihiv, was caught in the conflict from early March to early April 2022.

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB128016

Date taken / Date Recorded 06/06/2022 12:00 AM

Country Ukraine

Photographer / videographer / producer Melissa Pracht

Usage Rights (MSF) External Media, MSF Publications, Social Media

Formal Consent Copy available yes

Editor's rating ★★★ (F)

Video format h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 1m57s

Maximum Size 1080px × 1080px 128.08 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist Yahidne Village, Ukraine

Patsyuk Valentyna Fedorivna
MSF Patient

They saw me, pointed a machine gun at the window, fired, smashed the window, and they all came into my house. [0:10]

They told us to give them our phones, broke them immediately, and ordered us to go to the basement. Then, we were in the basement and they were in our house. [0:19]

From March 4 to April 3, my husband and I sat in the basement. [0:24]

[TEXT on screen:] People in Yahidne village are struggling with the physical and psychological impact of being caught in the conflict for a month.[0:33]

Nina Mikhailivna Modack
MSF Patient

I've become nervous. When I hear a loud sound I'm afraid, and I want to cry all the time. And it's affected my body—my legs hurt, everything hurts. [0:57]

[TEXT on screen:] While some people sheltered in their own basements, more than 350 people were forced to stay in the basement of a school that became the center of the fighting. [1:09]

Ivan Petrovich
MSF Patient

When the shelling began, everything started shaking, falling on our heads. Children would scream, older people would start lamenting, wailing. [1:19]

It affected the mental health of everyone who was in that basement. [1:25]

[TEXT on screen:] MSF is providing medical and mental health services in Yahinde and other areas affected by the conflict. But the needs will continue. [1:33]

There is no joy, only emptiness in the soul. Spring has come, something has blossomed. You planted something in the ground, you are happy. It used to be like that. [1:46]

Now, you walk with muted emotions. At night you go to bed and wait for an explosion to shatter the window.