When the fighting for Rubizhne began, Viktoriia, her husband, and her one-and-a-half-year-old son moved to the city outskirts to live with her mother-in-law. They heard that street fighting was already taking place on their street. Then, a shell hit the basement they had been hiding in. They miraculously survived, having been injured by stone blocks from the fallen ceiling.
"Had the child been on husband's lap, the stone blocks would have fallen on his head"
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