Hey, friends! This is the final part of my story. Now we live in Kyiv, Ukraine. Staying here was our conscious choice. We didn’t leave in 2014, and we are not leaving now. We believe that someone has to stay. This is our home. I don’t see myself in Europe or anywhere else. I love Ukraine, and I want to build my life, my freedom, and my democracy here. And while we stay and try to live, this is what Russia does to Ukrainians in the occupied territories. Ukrainians cannot sell their homes with a Ukrainian passport. They cannot manage their property without Russian documents. Ukrainian ownership papers are not recognized. If property is not re-registered under Russian law, it is declared “ownerless” and taken by Russian forces or by local authorities controlled by Russia. To even try to go there, people must enter through Russia. They face so-called filtration: interrogations, phone checks, social media checks. Decisions are made without explanation. Many are banned from entry for decades. My apartment has not been taken — but my right to it has. I don’t even know how it can be legally re-registered anymore. People are deliberately pushed into a situation where they must either change their citizenship or lose all legal rights to their own property. Even those who are willing to return to their homes in the occupied territories can simply be denied entry for most of their lifetime. And for many people, returning is impossible not only because of bans — but because their homes and entire cities have been destroyed, erased from the map. Is this not humiliation of people? Is this not genocide? This is a clear violation of international human rights. This is the reality millions of Ukrainians are living with today.