She covered her two-month-old daughter with her body during the shelling.

The missile hit a residential area of Kyiv at 8:30 a.m. In the room where the family was, a window and a wall were blown out by the blast wave. The mother took twenty-four fragments upon herself. At the time of the explosion, she was breastfeeding the baby. My husband Dmytro was also injured.

In the photo taken at the Okhmatdyt clinic, the wounded Olha is also breastfeeding her little daughter. Olia began to be called the “Ukrainian Madonna.”

On the day of the interview with the couple, their daughter Viktoriia was four months old.  The family came to the destroyed apartment, which they had rented for many years, to get their remaining belongings.