Valeriia is the director of the Pryazovskyi State Technical University, which is now located in Dnipro. When the offensive on Mariupol began, the university, which had bomb shelters, took in refugees from other parts of the city who were left homeless. In early March, Valeriia and her family tried to leave Mariupol, but they couldn’t because of tank battles around them. There was no water, electricity, or gas, and they cooked on fires. And there was constant shelling. They managed to escape from this hell on March 14. Later, in Dnipro, Valeriia and her colleagues managed to rebuild the university practically from scratch.