Yelyzaveta has eight children. In the early days, she was very worried about her eldest daughter, who was in Kyiv. When a rocket exploded 300 meters from their house, the nine of them left Bakhmut in a small car. Yelyzaveta's sister stayed there. A shell hit her apartment. Her husband was killed, and her sister underwent 10 skin transplants, lost an eye and went deaf in one ear.