On the first day of the full-scale war, Liudmyla Nevmerzhytska was racing down a forest road to the gas station where she worked. She got a call from near Kyiv: "Mom, we’re coming to you." That evening, in Chaikivka, Zhytomyr region, a large family gathered at Liudmyla’s house — children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

She recalls how, in the first weeks of the invasion, she stretched ropes right in the yard and began teaching others how to cut old bedsheets into strips for camouflage nets.

Over time, a strong volunteer hub formed in Chaikivka. Even when a russian shahed drone crashed nearby — they didn’t stop working. "We simply can’t do otherwise, because our children are there. Our son is in the Armed Forces. We pray for everyone. And we want to believe that maybe just one of our nets will save someone," Liudmyla says.