In the heart of Mariupol, where the sounds of missiles have become routine, and fear has turned into everyday life, Karym Dubinchenko experienced the fateful moments of his life. Since the early days of the war, the local road service worker witnessed horrific scenes: torn bodies, burials in mass graves. 

In peacetime, Karim and his fellow road workers were supposed to be laying tiles in the city, but instead they were transporting water, food and later the bodies of the dead to the morgue. The killed civilians were buried in mass graves. They went to the places of shell hits and delivered injured people to hospitals that were still operating. In a few days, regular guys from the road service became heroes - volunteers. 

At the time of the invasion, Karim was 18 years old, his son was born, and he was supposed to leave the city. But he stayed in hell till the last! “The scariest thing was to hear an airplane” - he recalls. He describes an incident when a bomb hit the building where a family lived. The grandfather managed to hide his seven-year-old granddaughter in the cellar before the air raid. When the girl was taken out of there, the child turned completely gray-haired because of what she had experienced.

Karym and his family got out of that hell. And now the experience he gained in Mariupol and his new values help him raise his children in a world where everything can change in a moment.