Amaliia Pashchenko was born in Donetsk, but considers Kramatorsk her hometown. She moved there when the fighting in Donbas started. In 2022, in the first days of the full-scale invasion, the family went to Sloviansk. Tanks were already heading towards the city. The family barely had time to leave the city when all exits were blocked. Then they moved to Dnipro, where they also came under fire. Once a missile hit just 100 metres from them, destroying several entrances to the house. In the difficult times of war, Amaliia finds comfort in music. The girl told her story while participating in the project “Rinat Akhmetov to Children”.