"After the shelling, we had to pull people out from under the rubble and extinguish the flames"

From the first day of the war, Volodymyr began evacuating people from the Eastern district. Shells were exploding all around, and houses were already burning. He did not manage to evacuate his own family; they remained trapped in the settlement on the outskirts of the city. They lived under constant shelling for 32 days.