Viktoriia met the war in her native Cherkasy region, together with her parents. At first, she could not believe that it was really happening – it seemed that everything was about to end, that it was just a bad dream. But every day it became clearer: the great war had come for a long time. Viktoriia did not want to just stay at home. She found out that a local volunteer centre was making camouflage nets and decided to join.