The building materials store where Viktor works is adjacent to the Okhmatdyt hospital. The Russian missile attack on Kyiv on July 8, 2024, caught Viktor and his colleagues at work. They hid in the vestibule from the glass and debris. In the first minutes, rescuers, police, volunteers - everyone who wanted to help - started arriving at the site of the missile's arrival. Employees of the building store provided protective clothing, sledgehammers and crowbars. Several hundred people were clearing the rubble and evacuating patients and their families.