Vasyl Bodnia recalls how on the second day after the war began, his city came under russian shelling. He and other residents prepared a technical basement for shelter, equipped it with everything necessary for survival. The russians entered the city on tanks. Vasyl witnessed how, for fun, tanks crushed civilian cars when people were trying to hide. Shells destroyed apartments every day. They smashed them to pieces. The family had to leave. They left the keys with an elderly neighbor. But the occupiers took the keys from the elderly woman and seized Vasyl's home.