Writer, journalist, artist, and embroiderer Olena Maliarenko met a full-scale invasion in Kherson. During the occupation, despite the danger, she embroidered T-shirts and shirts based on Mariia Pryimachenko's designs, with yellow and blue, and ridiculed the occupiers in her satirical notes, thus saving the people of Kherson from despair.

At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Olena worked as the director of the Stanislav Public Library. russian soldiers settled in the reading room during the occupation. She survived the occupation and waited until liberation. Olena Maliarenko's house was flooded after the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant had been blown up. Now, she has to live under constant shelling.