Olesia had to spend a whole day in a basement with a gunshot wound to her side. The occupiers opened fire on the woman and her husband with a burst from an assault rifle as they tried to make their way to their home to collect some belongings. Doctors stitched up Olesia’s wound, but her internal organs were severely damaged. A day later, they managed to escape to territory under Ukrainian control. Doctors at a hospital in Zaporizhzhia saved her life.