During the first days of the great war, Nadiya's family was at home in a private house, not far from the Azovstal steelworks. They hid in the house from the constant explosions. They were without electricity, heat, water and food. Their supplies quickly ran out and they had to go for humanitarian aid. Their car, marked ‘Children’, came under enemy fire. Nadiya's daughter was wounded. The woman remembers how Mariupol looked like at that time. Mangled, burnt-out high-rise buildings and the bodies of people on the streets everywhere.