A few months before the war began, Iryna lost her daughter and was raising her grandson alone. Together with him, she experienced all the horrors of the Russian occupation - the village of Kivsharivka was occupied on February 27. Despite the lack of water, electricity and means of subsistence, the hardest thing was seeing the invaders trying to establish their own order.

Iryna and her grandson waited for their liberation, but the worst awaited them ahead. Having withdrawn, the russian troops began to mercilessly shell the Kharkiv region. Iryna’s house has suffered from shelling twice, twice a miracle saved them.

Without electricity, gas and water, with almost no humanitarian aid, people survived as best they could. Foreign journalists helped them leave. As before, Iryna clings to hope - to return home as soon as possible. And belief in the power of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which will liberate her native land from invaders.