Oksana lived with her daughter and husband in a house on Kuprin Street in Mariupol. In early March, this neighborhood became the first line of defense.

“On March 3, a friend came to us from the Left Bank with her son and husband. There was a lot of shooting there and there were already first casualties. But later Katia and her family went to another house. That was the last day we saw each other.

March 4. Two hits to the parents' house and a hit to our house. Everything shook, the windows shattered. I covered my daughter. The shell hit the neighboring apartment through the roof but did not explode.

We thought about going to the basement at 127 Myra Avenue, we thought it was the most reliable. But on March 11, the russian military dropped a bomb on this very high-rise building. My daughter's classmate and his family were killed.

Her brother was hit by a Neptune air strike.

The stench in the city was unbelievable, there was broken equipment and houses everywhere. There were many corpses,” said Oksana, a resident of Mariupol.