At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Lev was 5 years old. He says that when a shell hit his apartment, he was very scared.

“The tank fired, the sound was heard throughout the apartment.

Dust flew at us. A chandelier fell on my mother’s leg. They put a Lego splint on her leg. It was scary. Then we went down to the basement. I was the tenth child there. We watched cartoons. My mom slept on chairs with a dog in her arms,” recalls Lev, a resident of Mariupol.