- Well, my name is Anastasia Shpygunova
I'm a small animals veterinarian from Kiev.
I was born there.
I was raised there and I studied there
at the University in Kiev
and yeah, it was super interesting
to see how the Ukrainian veterinary
was developing during that time,
and during the last few years,
I mostly was focusing
on the feline medicine and infectious diseases.
I cannot put it in my head
that now in Europe I'm not a veterinarian
because our diplomas are not recognized,
so I'm kind of useless here.
I cannot believe that.
And I cannot really imagine,
I don't know if my house is still there
because a few days ago there was news in the internet
that there was a missile falling on a mall
which is like 400 meters from our house.
So I don't even know if it still exists.
- How does that feel?
How does it feel in your mind that you're not at your home
that you're not able to do what you want, but you are safe.
Is there guilt involved?
Is there, how can we help?
Because I think we all probably feel helpless in some way.
And what we're really trying to do
is give a voice to show the world what is going on.
- A colleague of mine,
actually said, it's all of us probably feeling guilty
for being safe and for not sitting
in a basement as someone does at the moment.
And some of our colleagues probably do at the moment.
And whatever you do, you still feel that you do not enough.
And so it's, I would say it's some kind of depressing
and not many of colleagues say that out loud,
but yeah, I think they feel really bad in the evening
when nothing distracts you and you start to think again.