Oleksandr went to the basement with his family when shells started flying over his house. After two weeks underground, the russian occupiers entered his yard. They did not allow the family to leave on the first attempt. But the next day, Oleksandr and his son managed to get to the garage, put all their relatives in the cars and got out of Mariupol. They also took the wife of the Mariupol defender with a toddler with them to Zaporizhzhia.