Viktor Rybalko left Mariupol on 25.03.2022 for a business trip and was unable to return home. His family remained in the city: his wife Yuliia, 11-year-old daughter Veronika and two-year-old son Maksym. Yuliia and her children escaped from the blockaded Mariupol only two and a half weeks after the start of the massive shelling. Viktor's relatives were killed there.