Ukrainian singer Dmytro Volkanov told how he lost contact with his mother for a month and a half and how his father got out of occupied Berdiansk

"During the first two months of the war, I lived with Andriy Danylko. I called him at six in the morning on February 24. I told him: "'Mykhailovych, the war has started'. Do you know what he said? "Dima, go to bed, if it doesn't end in three hours, we'll think about something," Volkanov says. "Even at such a difficult moment, he reassured me".

According to Volkanov, the first two days they stayed with Danylko alone, then the showman's concert director joined them with his family and pet.

"We had a great group. I remember Mykhailovych cooking, me going to Silpo to look for something. An empty Kyiv, no people at all. And somehow we survived."

But the most difficult situation in the first month of the full-scale invasion was with his parents, who lived in Berdiansk at the time.

"I lost contact with my mother for a month and a half. I was like a plant by the roadside, I didn't want anything. I installed all the messengers, wrote and called my mother every morning and evening, but...

One day, when I was travelling from Kyiv to Lviv, I received a message on Viber. It was from my mother. I didn't know what to do, I couldn't dare to read it because I was afraid of bad things. Then I looked at myself in the mirror and said: "You are a man". I opened the message and it said: "Son, we are in Dnipro. Everything is fine." A heart. I realised what happiness is. I became the happiest person."