After a plane dropped a bomb near the house in Mariupol where Veronika’s family lived on March 4, 2022, they moved to her father’s private house. And until March 18, they hardly left the basement because of the constant bombing. Veronika and her son were taken out of Mariupol only on April 22. Veronika’s son, who was one and a half years old at the time, did not speak for a very long time.