During the shelling, Viacheslav stayed at home with his 92-year-old mother. All the windows in their apartment have already been smashed. The DPR soldiers were running around. Smoke started coming from under the roof. “We couldn’t breathe properly. I opened the hatch. I threw everything that was on the bed down into the basement of the museum. It was 3.5 m deep,” Viacheslav Dolzhenko, a Mariupol resident and the founder of a private museum, tells his story. “I pulled my mother from the bed and pushed her into the basement. Then, I locked the hatch. The museum was filled with smoke”.