Kyrylovich Family
About Us:
We are the Kyrylovich Family from Lutsk
We have 2 sons and are all here in Melbourne
My husband is a Construction Engineer by trade and I’m an Accountant
Our Story:
We are from Lutsk city, which is situated in the Western Ukraine. We’ve been living near military airport and military unit..
At the 24th of February, when the war began, these military airport was bombed while we were still there, in our house. We have heard bomb alerts all the time, our boys were so scared of this sounds and they cried all the time. We run to the bomb shelter for 5-6 times a day.
At the beginning I realized that we should escape, because of our small kids, but it was so hard to take such a difficult decision. When the second bomb was at the 11 of March, I took my kids and my sister into the car and we went to Poland. I noticed my sister and my kids were suffering emotionally because this war. There were announcement on our local Ukrainian channels how to protect family in case of chemical attack. I was so scared for my kids.
I gathered all my will and character together and went to nowhere. I’ve never thought I am such a strong woman. It was hard for my husband to leave Ukraine. It was hard for him to leave everything we had - the house of our dreams which we just finished to build before the war, his business, which we had before the war, and his comfort.
Before the war we had automobile business - we have bought used cars in Germany, did all the customs and then sold it. It was a small family business. My husband has build our house by himself, he had an experience of building houses in Germany before. He is construction engineer. I also have 2 degrees - technical engineer and economist.
We understand clearly that it will be hard for us to live in Australia at the beginning, but our kids are our best motivation. I’ve saw on YouTube that kindergartens are expensive in Melbourne, so we’ve decided that I will stay with the kids at home and he’s gonna work.
When we settle down, I’ll go for professional courses of beauty specialist in manicure or hairdresser, because probably I will not be able to work as accountant in Melbourne (because there are different laws, tax system, and my poor English).
Yulia Kyrylovich