Makar and his family left Mariupol on the first day of the full-scale invasion. There were nine of them. They made it to Polohy and got into occupation there. Heavy bombardment began, they lived without electricity for two weeks, and moved to Kyiv region. Makar’s father, a defender of Azovstal, was taken prisoner. He was in the very barracks in Olenivka that was blown up by the russians.