On February 24, Maryna saw fire in front of her house in Kyiv. The air defense system had shot down a missile. The building opposite caught fire. There was no bomb shelter nearby. So Maryna went to her friend’s house. 

“My friend invited me to her place. She lived near the Zhytomyrska metro station. There was a crowd of people in the subway. There were traffic jams. It was impossible to leave the city”, Maryna recalls.