"My husband's sister from Canada told us that war had broken out in Ukraine. We hadn't heard the explosions yet, and she had already learned about it from the news. We had to leave for Vasylkiv. But there were rockets flying and explosions there, too,” Inna Poliakova recalls. A month later, she and her husband returned to Kyiv and were horrified by what they saw: the streets were deserted, there were anti-tank hedgehogs everywhere, windows in houses were taped together, and some were even broken. The woman told her relatives in Russia about the horrors committed by their military, but they did not believe her. Later, she stopped communicating.