Olha Prokopenko, while in Kyiv, felt the inevitability of the full-scale invasion even before it began. She was sure that the war would begin soon. “I just didn’t sleep that night, I was convinced that everything would start right now,” Olha recalls her feelings. When the first bombing started, she saw a post by her colleague, a journalist from Mariupol, and realized that it was real. Olha immediately joined the fight, including helping with information, psychological rehabilitation of the military and civilians, and volunteering.

She managed to control her emotions, but the news of the terrorist attack in Olenivka came as a big shock to her. “It was the first time I cried. It was a feeling of despair,” she says, recalling her loved ones who could have been there. Today, Olha lives in hope of victory: “We have to win it, and I’m sure it will happen.”