Victoria, together with her mother and bedridden father, met the full-scale invasion in Kharkiv.

"Vika, wake up, Kharkiv is being bombed!" We guessed that it could happen. But the brain did not accept that the war was near. People started attacking pharmacies and shops. Queues. I got scared. It was very loud. We didn't know how it would end," said Victoriia, a resident of Kharkiv.

The woman also had 16 dogs. Victoriia could not imagine leaving with sick parents and so many animals.