Natalia is the principal of a gymnasium in Myrcha. At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, she sheltered 50 refugees in her kindergarten and managed to get them all out before the village was occupied with the help of volunteers. She baked bread for her fellow villagers and organised humanitarian aid through the headquarters in the gymnasium. But then Russian soldiers and military equipment were stationed there. On  March 31, the village was de-occupied, and in May, Natalia resumed teaching her children.