Olena’s family faced the full-scale invasion in Mariupol, where they had moved in 2002. They managed to leave only on 16 April, when Olena’s mother died. And on the 18th, she and her husband were taken captive, because Olena’s two sons were soldiers of the Azov Regiment. They were held for more than half a year in a high-security colony. When they were exchanged, they learned that on 29 March 2022, their son Kyrylo “Pride” Marchenko had been killed in Mariupol.