Oleksandr Kharchenko is the CEO of the national news agency Ukrinform. They had been preparing for the war in advance, right down to the worst-case scenario. However, despite the preparation, it wasn't easy. The whole team had to give one hundred percent in the first days of the war. Oleksandr himself was in Vasylkiv, helping his aged father while addressing numerous crucial issues for the agency's existence at the same time.