Her whole family was in Ukraine when the war broke out. She cannot forget the night of horrors when she called and called, but the silent line was her response. The story will now be told from a first-person perspective.

My younger sister and I are woken up by my mother with the words, “Get up quietly and pack all the things you need in a suitcase.” All the sudden, everything changed in February 24, 2022

The news was dubious for us people from Mariupol; no one believed in what would happen. One night, from February 23 to February 24, I watched the shorts and saw Putin’s appeal on TikTok. At first, I thought the invasion was a joke and just laughed.