The village of Chermalyk lies within Ukraine's Donbas region, where a proxy war has been ongoing between Russian and Ukraine since 2014. 300 kilometers from Mariupol, missiles aimed at the city now pass over Chermalyk, where the majority of residents speak Russian. 'This scum Putin says he's coming here to save the Russian-speaking people... I'm Russian speaking, I do not need to be saved. My country is Ukraine', says 63-year-old Vania. Meanwhile, in Zaporijia, Yulia, who volunteered as a sniper in 2019, is now faced with leaving her children behind in order to fight for her country once again: 'we have no other choice. If we lose, the whole world will lose'. In Kyiv, where a 10pm curfew has turned the city into a ghost town, middle-aged Dyma decides with his family that he must join the fight: 'they say Kyiv gave birth to Moscow, it will bury it too'.