Hi all, my name is Roman, I am a close friend to Alena, Nata..

Hi all, my name is Roman, I am a close friend to Alena, Natasha's (Nika) sister and the one who has been taking all the photos, you can see her photos somewhere in here too if you look through them and wanted to write a little update here. I have lost touch with the girls for about 8 days and since logging on here requires an authenticator which is on one of their phones, I couldn't even come on here to write any updates should I had to. Thankfully I finally got through to them. They also made a short video asking for some help and I'll post that once I can get it dubbed over or something since it's in Ukrainian. Long story short, they were in Chernihiv, then in a village on the eastern side of Chernihiv. Most of that area was under the invader's control. They didn't have water, electricity or heat, let alone internet service that was stable. But last message I had from Alena before the most recent ones, was that they may be able to leave, they'd have to pay and rent a place once they leave, but Natasha didn't want to leave her husband, who is fighting. So they farthest they'd be able to leave is somewhere towards west, past Kiev, but still in Ukraine. They managed to do that apparently and now are safer west of Kiev. Cell reception is still very poor and spotty, no water still but at least they have access to a well at some people's house and they're able to use a gas tank for heat, so its a much better situation. I will post a video here soon as I can so you can see it for yourself. The girls are super grateful for anything that you guys have done, they love you for it because right now, that's what's getting them through. The house they're renting for a 4 families (9 people) costs double what's an average monthly salary there and they're almost out of their savings (Thank God they even had them, I guess thanks to OF in the first place). I've attached Alena's last message as proof, in case you need to see it, and I will upload the video here. I cannot change the banking information without their permission and access to their emails, so all I can do is just "cash out" for them and the money gets deposited in their account, should anyone have any fears of that. Also, they are unable to access most of their services because of how bad the reception is, they literally send the video on a sim card with someone who was going to Poland and they sent the video to me through google drive from once they got to more stable internet.