Former director of leading Ukrainian TV channels, and since 2014, co-founder and chairman of the Svoi charitable foundation, which provided assistance to cancer patients and palliative patients, Lesya Litvinova told how her children ended up in the epicenter of hostilities north of Kyiv. Without electricity, gas, almost no communication and almost no food..

“When the country woke up in the morning from the explosions, I did the only thing that was important for me - I took all the family members that I managed to reach. I was sure that Kyiv would be the most dangerous city in the country. And that no one will care about the small dacha cooperative between Gostomel and Dymer. Safe little island in the middle of the forest. Well, who will poke there? I brought everyone and went to work in Kyiv. I had to return in the evening with groceries and fuel for the generator,"

Her children - a son and a one and a half year old daughter - lived under occupation for two weeks, sometimes sending SMS.

" Dogs dragged a roe deer from the forest. It's shared here for everyone."

" Everyone helps each other. They brought a little milk from the village for Salt"

" We'll make it. When will the war end? And you will be alive? You will, promise?

Children of a volunteer got out of Demidov through a bombed-out bridge. Without a ceasefire, at the risk of local desperate residents who organized a " An evacuation paid for by a local police officer.

" Yesterday my commander let me go to spend the night with them in Kyiv. My son in two weeks turned into a mother and father at the same time for a one and a half year old sister. Hood like shtakhetina. And completely grown. My personal hero. I can't imagine how he's holding up, they're all having a hard time. But he took on a heavy burden. Salt does not let anyone near him except him. He is her little universe while her parents are not around.

Today they will leave for safe Lutsk. And they will be there waiting for the end of the war. They realize it's not for a few days. But they know that we will win and be together again. One day. After the victory,"

Around Kyiv, Russian invaders seized the settlements of Polesskoe, Cooks, Borodyanka, Andreevka, Motyzhin, Gorenichi, Bucha, Demidov. In cordon conditions, they often attack local residents, drive them out of their own homes, or even shoot them..