"At 5am, we saw the first explosions from our windows. We realised that our city was in danger. My children and grandchildren were the first to leave. I left a month after them, and my husband stayed until the last minute,’ says Nadiya Polova. He was already being taken out by evacuation teams, and it was very dangerous. After everything they had been through, they decided to get married, because they had lived for 40 years without a stamp in their passports.