“I turn around in our flat, screaming twice, “Vitya!” And I hear only the deadly silence in response”

Natalia Dedova, an editor at Sigma TV channel in Mariupol and the founder of the charity project Marathon of Kindness, recounts how on 11 March 2022, her life was divided into “before” and “after”. Her beloved husband Viktor Dedov was gone, and, apparently, her future was gone too.