Iryna lost contact with her children, who were in Mariupol, when she tried to solve a problem with the sale of her apartment in occupied Donetsk. For a month she did not know what happened to them, what hell they went through. Her eldest son worked in the police in Mariupol and was taken prisoner. When he was released, the family moved to Ukraine. Now Iryna works as a volunteer in a team of people who weave camouflage nets for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.