71-year-old Lyudmila Chehuta and her granddaughter Vilora from Siverskodonetsk found shelter in the village of Kniahynynok in Volyn at the beginning of the full-scale war. While the grandmother prepares canned food for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, her granddaughter helps.

How women settled in Volyn, they told Suspilne.

Lyudmila Chehuta says that her house burned to the ground, even the walls fell in. She left the house with nothing. She and her granddaughter traveled across the Dnieper, where they spent two nights in the school gym.

They found shelter with friends in Volyn. They don't pay anything for rent, only for utilities. It was the first time the woman had to live in a village, not in a city.

Lyudmila Chehuta worked as a doctor. First in a maternity hospital, and then in a paramedical and obstetrics station. Now she closes jams and preserves for the military.

"This is a beautiful cellar, our shelter, as they say. We closed a lot of cucumbers, which I gave to people and to the war. My pension is very small, with a reindexation of 3,000 hryvnias. In April I will be 72 years old. I believe that despite everything, life is beautiful," the woman adds.

Before the full-scale war, Vilora, like her father, was involved in off-roading. In the room where she now lives, she has set up a corner with her father's awards, who was a master of sports, and photographs.

"It's hard when you're left without a home, but every person who loses a home reevaluates what's more important. You're no longer chasing renovations, life. You're not living to show others. I have a roof. It's warm here. It doesn't matter where you live: in a house or an apartment. You live," says Vilora.

Currently, "Babilona" has four higher education degrees, which she obtained at a university that "moved" from Luhansk to Severskodonetsk.

"Ukrainians differ from other nations in that they do not hide their pain, they do not want it to subside. They convert it into movement. And this is the only thing that helps us currently live this life the way we want," the girl says.

Her grandmother adds that it is worth helping the soldiers so that each family can return home as soon as possible.

The material was prepared by correspondent Anna Hlushchuk