Olena survived in Mariupol in the private sector. The house was located in the old part of the city. She remembers how she was hit by the first airstrike when she was standing in line for water. And how on March 16, the occupiers dropped two aerial bombs on the drama theatre. 

"The wounded were taken out of the theatre. There was a car in front of the building. And there lay the wounded. And we stayed in the house and did not understand that they had come to kill us. 

On March 19, 4 aerial bombs fell near us. And we went to the shelter. Stayed there. And then we decided: "Better a terrible end than endless horror." And we began to leave the city. But I couldn't go through filtration. I was in captivity in 2016. Therefore, I walked along the seashore to Melekyne. And only then did I realize that the city was occupied," said Olena, a resident of Mariupol.