Halyna is from Donetsk region, and the war came to her home back in 2014. When the first hostilities began, she persuaded her family to leave – who knew that in 2022 the war would catch up with them in Irpin. Halyna’s sister and her 90-year-old mother, who could only move with the help of trekking poles, had to walk several kilometres to get out of Irpin – along a road covered with the bodies of dead people, ride in the trunk of a car that volunteered to take them out, and wade through the Irpin River. After all that she had been through, Halyna was convinced that every conscious citizen should contribute to Ukraine’s future victory, so she joined the Vyshyvanka for Tank volunteer association.