"All hell broke loose. Planes were flying in the sky. People were risking their lives every second. Many people have February in their hearts forever"

"Mum, I'm talking to you now, and there's a corpse in front of me", says Valeriia, a resident of Mariupol. ‘I wrote notes with my details. Blood type, phone numbers of my mother and husband.

"Tell my husband and mum that I love them very much." I wrote the same note for my daughter Lera. Many wrote phrases: "If something happens to me". They were afraid to write: "If I am killed".