Hannah Sorel is a successful entrepreneur and designer. She produces clothes under her own brand “Anna Sorel” and conducts online courses for women. Just before the start of the war, Hannah gave birth to her fourth child, and a week after the Russian invasion, her family left their newly built house in Kyiv in two cars and emigrated first to Italy, then to Bulgaria.
Hannah speaks about how the war affected her business and turned her former prosperous life into the life of a refugee- Episode of Eyewitnesses of February 24 published on Februar 13th, 2023.
Comments by Viewers
Thanks for the story. The war made refugees indiscriminately, and wealthy people also suffered from it. May everything get better for you! And you are great for raising so many children.
Very emotional, true! Hold on! The war will still end with the victory of Ukraine!
God!!!!! For what is all this???? I’m from Russia, I cry every day! What a pity….
Thank you. It is very important to hear all this and not close your eyes.
Dear people, strength, health, hope to you!! Everything has an end and this hell will end.
I listen and everything inside me turns cold. I’m just slowly dying.
I admire you! May Angels protect you.
I live in the Russian Federation, I didn’t have anything, I still don’t have anything. I live in a boarding school. I have no pension in my hands, no freedom. I have no rights. I’m lucky the bombs aren’t flying. I have nothing and no one to lose. My Hell is endless.
Regarding the angry ones from Donetsk: there was no need to watch Putin’s box (ORT, NTV and other Putin’s zombie channels), and then, at the click of propagandists from TV, they would not have rebelled against their homeland Ukraine and would not have called for war back in 2014.
Yes, I see – we have all grown so much older from this war.
I didn’t know anything, as usual I turned on the TV and then the Internet and that’s where I found out and for me it was a shock, I just asked several times: “Is it a war, is it a war …?” For me it was a shock, I didn’t hear any rumors at all.
I sympathize with this woman from the bottom of my heart. Packed, prosperous life. Everything collapsed. Children who need to be raised. A future that is completely uncertain.
But what resonated with me was nothing personal, just business. We also have a clothing manufacturing business. We stayed at home. We completely let go of Russian clients. And we conducted a survey among our other clients around the world: how do you feel about Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Everyone who remained silent was removed from the client database. We also lost – a lot.
I have a question for the heroine of this video: And if Putin and his family were among her clients, would she also continue doing business with them?
The “Where have you been these 8 years?” type of comment
For 8 years, bombs flew over the heads of the residents of Donetsk and Lugansk, while you were simply running your business in Kyiv with pride that you were Ukrainian. .. 8 years were given time for Ukraine, and you, like the Ukrainian Hannah, to stop their aggression in the Donbass. And you did not stop either in your pride or in aggression
And if Ukrainians today have anyone to blame for bombs flying over their heads, it’s only themselves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !! It was necessary not only to see your children all these 8 years, but also the children of Donbass, whom you killed all these 8 years. Or for you nursing mothers, your children are children, but the children of Donbass are not children, so what? According to Poroshenko, your children should go to school, and the children of Donbass should sit in basements throughout their childhood, and they did, they spent their entire childhood. Do you think there should be no retribution for this?
All children are children, that’s why you get what you deserve today. It’s not your children who deserve it, it’s you. And your children are paying for your idiocy. Have I explained to you quite simply what is happening, or not?
Answer1: My numerous relatives in Ukraine, including those from the LPR, never complained about the Ukrainian authorities, lived prosperously and spoke Russian fluently.
Answer2: Don’t lie to yourself or to other people.
Answer3: go get treatment