The wife of a Belarusian volunteer who was killed on the front line in 2025 has been left alone with an infant in Kyiv. She has no support, no stable income, and her health has not fully recovered after childbirth. The family needs help with housing, treatment, and basic expenses.
My name is Chia. My husband was a Belarusian volunteer with the call sign “Mesyats”*. Since 2023, he fought for Ukraine. He was killed heroically in 2025 while carrying out a combat mission. Our child was not even two months old at that time. Now the baby is already learning to babble “mama,” but will grow up without a father he never had the chance to know.
Our story began at a distance: he was in Ukraine, and I lived in China. Later, he flew to me, and despite the language barrier, difficulties with documents, and relocation, we realized that we wanted to be together. I moved to build a family with him. We started life anew in a country that was new to me, and soon we had a child.
My husband did not love war, but he could not accept injustice. In Belarus, he went through prisons for protesting against the dictatorship. After arriving in Ukraine, he always chose the most dangerous areas: he saved lives as a medic in the hell of Bakhmut, took risks in the engineering troops, and then served in a mortar crew – where his life was cut short. His brothers-in-arms called him an “indispensable specialist,” but he himself always believed he was not doing enough. He rarely spoke about himself, but always did more than was expected of him.
To be with me during childbirth, he briefly terminated his contract. After the birth of our child, he returned to the front again. We made plans, dreamed about how we would live together, how he would watch our son grow. But these plans were not meant to come true.
My husband said he wanted to find a balance – to protect others and take care of his family. He is no longer here, but I want to preserve his love and raise our child despite everything. Please help us.
Now I am alone with a small child in Kyiv. I have a foreign passport, I do not speak the language, and I have no family support here. Every day means having to cope with everything on my own: documents, housing, expenses, and childcare. I found myself in a situation it is impossible to prepare for.
My health has not recovered after childbirth, and stress and loss only make my condition worse. Without help from loved ones, it is difficult for me to undergo the necessary rehabilitation and at the same time take care of my child.
The funds raised on the BYSOL platform will go toward the basic needs of our family and will help us get through this period.
*For security reasons, some details of the story have been changed
Fundraising goal
€4000
€1500 – housing for 3 months
€900 – essential expenses for the child
€800 – my health and postpartum rehabilitation
€600 – basic expenses for our family
€200 – processing necessary documents