In 2014, Tetiana Hryshyna saw russian occupiers in her village in Luhansk region for the first time. "They said they came to 'protect your russian world,' and asked why I was still resisting," she recalls. That’s when the war began for her. Together with her children, they left for the unknown — "we were going nowhere," and fate brought them to Zhytomyr region.

Here, in Dovbysh, she built a new life: she got married, cared for her elderly mother. And from the first days of the invasion, she joined a strong local volunteer community. She weaves camouflage nets. She casts candles.  And even Tetiana’s 96-year-old father-in-law, a beekeeper, helps — he donates wax for frontline candles. Tetiana does not allow herself even a thought of rest. Because her son-in-law is at the front, along with hundreds of thousands of other defenders.