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The paper is devoted to the functional-differential equation of the form \[ y'(t)=Vy(t), \quad t \in I \qquad (I=(0,T] \text{ or }I= (0,T)) \tag{*} \] with the initial condition \[ \lim_{t \to 0+}h(t) y(t) =0. \tag{**} \] Here \(V\) is an operator from \(C(I)\) into \(L^p(I)\), \(1\leq p \leq \infty \). By a solution we mean a function \(y \in C(I)\) such that \(hy \in AC[0,T]\). Note that there is a rather large literature concerning the case \(I= [0,T]\) and the condition (**) replaced by \(y(0)=y_0\). Occasionally, in the place of equation (*) the authors consider the equation \[ (h(t)y(t))' =N(y(t)), \qquad t \in [0,T], \tag{***} \] where \(N\) is an operator from \(E_h[0,T]\) (the space of all functions \(y \in C(0,T)\) such that \(hy \in C[0,T]\)) into \(L^1[0,T]\). Assuming that \(V\) (resp. \(N\)) is a Volterra operator or Carathéodory operator or local Carathéodory operator, the authors prove the existence of solutions.