Maryna and her husband Artem wanted to make the country better. He left the police to join the army. She chose the high-risk profession of a deminer. Because after 2014, in her native Donbas, there were still many deadly finds left behind. So, for the sake of children – not only their own, but all Ukrainian children – Maryna and Artem knowingly risked their lives. One day before his 40th birthday, Artem was gone. He died as he lived – saving others.

But the memory of the husband and father will not fade. Maryna and her son spent two months collecting signatures. And they achieved their goal – Artem, posthumously, was awarded the honorary title of Hero of Ukraine. And every day he looks from the photograph on the Alley of Memory in Brovary at his little daughter who is walking to school.

The children are growing up without their father, but with an understanding of who he was and what he died for. And Maryna, despite the loss, continues to clear Ukrainian land of mines – just as they once together tried to clear their future of war.