Liudmyla Hryhorivna clearly remembers the morning of February 24, when her son said: "Mom, I’m going to the Military Commissariat." Even before the full-scale invasion, he warned that there would be a war, because since 2014 he had been defending Ukraine. Liudmyla says that for her the war has been going on for 10 years, because her son has always been on the front lines.

At the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion, her son, while in Berdiansk, realized that it was already dangerous to reach Zaporizhzhia, then he said: "I will go to Mariupol on foot," and set out. Two months later, he was wounded, he temporarily lost his sight, but told his mother through friends: "We will not give up."

Liudmyla learned the news that her son had been captured from russian television — she saw footage of him placing a machine gun on an enemy truck. Only a year ago, she received news from the Red Cross that he was alive. The son conveyed the words that support her every day: "Mom, I'm alive, wait for me and I'll come back, just wait."