In the first days of the full-scale invasion in Kyiv, Viktoriia Sovych did not go out. She lived with her grandparents, her mother and sister were in Bucha, and her boyfriend was in Mariupol. She was very worried about her family. On the very first day of the Great War, a friend came to Victoriia's house, as she was unable to leave the city. Together, the girls went down to the basement of the kindergarten every night, as their house was not equipped as a shelter. Shops were closed, and only a week later a nearby supermarket started baking bread and selling it.