Viktor is from the village of Kalynivka, near Mariupol. He remembers how on February 24 he saw a tank under the window, and a few seconds later he heard a shot. The people of the DPR came to the village and robbed local residents. They also stormed Viktor's house, explained that they were liberators. Viktor says that their pattern was simple: they drove a car and loaded other people's things into it.

Viktor left for Zaporizhzhia on April 12, 2022. He remembered this day because that is when the Ilyich Plant in Mariupol fell.