This story became known thanks to the story of a family friend, singer Pavlo Zibrov. But Valentyna had never given an interview herself, and the first time she spoke to Ukrainian TV presenter Oleksiy Sukhanov was immediately after her surgery. On 25 November 2022, a russian missile hit her family's flat in Vyshhorod and her mother's flat on the floor below.

Fortunately, everyone is alive; the children managed to hide behind their grandmother's sofa on the ground floor, the husband and wife underwent surgery, and the family's cat and two dogs were searched for by the whole town and the whole country through social media, as the animals simply ran away from the force of the impact. The woman brought to the interview the fragments of a rocket that doctors removed from her arm.