b"Yuliya ZhdanyukMy name is Julia. I am a Pilates teacher from Nikolaev,will be able to hug our relatives and friends, we will Ukraine, now living in Poland. be able to return to a peaceful life, to return to our For me, as for many Ukrainians, everything changedfavorite studios, equipped with such love, to our in an instant, early on the morning of FebruaryPilates classes.24, when we learned that Russia had attackedMay our studios survive.our country. It was hard to believe, but the realityIn the meantime, I see the house, my family and turned out to be worse than any fiction. My city veryfriends, my studio and students every night in a quickly found itself under the threat of bombing anddream. Waking up in the morning, I have been in no shelling. hurry to open my eyes for many months . dreaming In the first days of the War, Russian troops tried tothat none of this happened. And that someday, I surround and take my hometown, but our defenderswill open my eyes - and I am at home! Outside the were able to give a worthy rebuff. This was followedwindow is Spring and the World, and all that has by rocket attacks from the Russian army. They werehappened was a terrible dream.relatively rare at first. But then they increased inPeace to all of us.frequency. There was more and more destruction, including peaceful residential buildings. More andTake care of yourself and each other! Hug your more dead civilians, including children . The sirensloved ones! After all, they are alive and they are near! were sounding more often, sometimes one afterAnd that is the greatest value in life!another, all day and night.Unfortunately, I can't do it yet.My studio is called Aquamarine. It is located in the center of my city in a shopping center on the top floor. Instead of walls, my studio has huge floor-to-ceiling windows. In peacetime, this is great! But,Please give to the Ukraine Crisis Appeal run by the Red Cross:during the War, this turned into great danger and Iwww.justgiving.com/fundraising/pilatesforukrainehad to close it. Despite everything, I continued to go to the studio until I had to leave - it helped me to live.Since February 24, I have been living in faith that Ukraine Pilates Instructor Telegram:we will be victorious, faith that we will stay alive, wehttps://t.me/PilatesUkraine27"