Invaders broke into Tetiana's house at night, and she prayed for them not touch her sick husband. The invaders settled in the Rodimkins' house and lived there for long eight months. They had been shelling the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the vegetable gardens of the locals. There was no communication at all in the village of Novoprokopivka. Tetiana used to go to the occupied Tokmak several times per month to inform their children that her husband and she were alive.  

The woman spent almost two years in the occupation. She had been keeping a large Ukrainian flag all this time and even took it out of the occupation.